Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 120
The Miser, on his next visit, found the hole empty and began to tear his hair and to make loud lamentations.
Who acts: Miser · What happens: find, begin, tear, make, visit · To what, where: hole, hair, loud lamentations
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miser), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Miser | det |
| 2 | Miser | Miser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 found | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 visit | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 visit | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 visit | nmod:poss |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 visit | amod |
| 7 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Miser | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Miser | punct |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hole | det |
| 11 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 12 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 found | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 tear | mark |
| 16 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hair | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tear | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 make | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 tear | conj |
| 22 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lamentations | amod |
| 23 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Miser | the hole | empty property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Topic | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the Miser not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | tear | to-infinitive | the Miser not said here | Miser's hair | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hair=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the Miser not said here | loud lamentations | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lamentation=Product | ||||
| 5 | visit | Miser | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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