Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 126

The Sheep and the Goat complained of his distressing cries, and said, “He often handles us, and we do not cry out.”

Who acts: Sheep, distressing, we · What happens: complain, cry, say, handle, not cry out · To what, where: us · 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 (Sheep, distressing, we), 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 Sheep	det
2	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 complained	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Goat	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Goat	det
5	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Sheep	conj
6	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 cries	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 distressing	nmod:poss
9	distressing	distressing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cries	nsubj
10	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 complained	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 complained	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 handles	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 handles	punct
16	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 handles	nsubj
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 handles	advmod
18	handles	handle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 handles	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cry	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cry	cc
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 cry	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 cry	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 cry	advmod
25	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 handles	parataxis
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 cry	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 complained	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 complained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	complain speech: other	past	the Sheep and the Goat			vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cry speech: express	present	Sheep's distressing			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the Sheep and the Goat not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	handle in a quote	present	Sheep	us	often property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
5	not cry out speech: express in a quote	present · do-support	we			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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