Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 132
Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment.
Who acts: Sheep · What happens: unwill, lose, withdraw, burst, lament, disappoint · To what, where: filberts, hand, tears, disappointment
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), 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 | Unwilling | unwill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 burst | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 lose | mark |
| 3 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Unwilling | xcomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 filberts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | filberts | filbert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lose | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 unable | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 unable | cc |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 unable | advmod |
| 9 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Unwilling | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 withdraw | mark |
| 11 | withdraw | withdraw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 unable | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 withdraw | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unwilling | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 burst | nsubj |
| 16 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 tears | case |
| 18 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 burst | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lamented | cc |
| 20 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 21 lamented | advmod |
| 21 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 burst | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 disappointment | nmod:poss |
| 23 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lamented | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unwill | gerund | Sheep not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lose | to-infinitive | Sheep not said here | Sheep's filberts | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent filbert=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | withdraw | to-infinitive | Sheep not said here | Sheep's hand | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burst | past | Sheep | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lament | past | Sheep not said here | Sheep's disappointment | bitterly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer disappointment=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | disappoint | Sheep | nom disappointment «feeling 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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