Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 121
A neighbor, seeing him overcome with grief and learning the cause, said, “Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there.
Who acts: neighbor, Pray, cause, gold · What happens: see overcome, learn, say, not grieve, go, take · To what, where: neighbor, cause, stone, hole, fancy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (neighbor, Pray, cause, gold), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 neighbor | det |
| 2 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 neighbor | acl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seeing | obj |
| 6 | overcome | overcome | ADP | _ | 4 seeing | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 grief | case |
| 8 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeing | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 learning | cc |
| 10 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 seeing | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cause | det |
| 12 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 learning | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 neighbor | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grieve | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 grieve | punct |
| 17 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 grieve | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 grieve | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 grieve | advmod |
| 20 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 grieve | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 go | cc |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 take | cc |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 stone | det |
| 28 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 place | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 place | cc |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obl |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 place | nsubj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 hole | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hole | det |
| 35 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 place | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fancy | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fancy | cc |
| 38 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | parataxis |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 lying | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 gold | det |
| 41 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 lying | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 lying | aux |
| 43 | still | still | ADV | _ | 44 lying | advmod |
| 44 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 fancy | acl |
| 45 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 lying | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see overcome | gerund | a neighbor not said here | neighbor | with grief | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | learn | gerund | a neighbor not said here | the cause | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a neighbor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not grieve in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Pray | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | take in a quote | infinitive | a stone | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||||
| 7 | place in a quote | cause | the hole | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | lie in a quote | present · progressive | the gold | fancy not said here | there | still | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fancy=Theme |
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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