Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 23

A TORTOISE, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly.

Who acts: TORTOISE, one, bird · What happens: complain, teach, fly, fate · To what, where: sea birds, bird

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 (TORTOISE, one, bird), 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 TORTOISE	det
2	TORTOISE	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 complained	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 basking	punct
4	lazily	lazily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 basking	amod
5	basking	basking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 TORTOISE	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 basking	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 complained	punct
10	complained	complain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 birds	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 birds	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 birds	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 sea	punct
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 complained	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 fate	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fate	nmod:poss
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fate	amod
19	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 birds	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 teach	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 teach	mark
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 teach	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 teach	aux
25	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 complained	parataxis
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 teach	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 fly	mark
28	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 teach	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 complained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	complain speech: other	participle	a TORTOISE and lazily basking in the sun	the sea birds of bird's hard fate	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bird=Recipient
2	teach speech: other	would	no one	bird	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fly	to-infinitive	no one not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fate		bird		nom fate «event 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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