Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 122

It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.”

Who acts: gold, you · What happens: do, be, not have, not make, use · To what, where: same service, you, gold, slightest use

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 (gold, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 do	iobj
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 service	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 service	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 service	amod
8	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	15 there	case
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 there	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gold	det
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 there	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 there	cop
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 had	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 do	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	obj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 had	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 make	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 make	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 make	advmod
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 do	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 use	det
28	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 use	amod
29	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 use	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	future	gold	the same service	you		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality
2	is	past	the gold			there property	tree rules
3	not have	past	you	gold			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	not make	past · do-support	you	the slightest use of gold			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product
5	use			gold			nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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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