Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 27

The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: “I have deserved my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?”

Who acts: Tortoise, wings, my · What happens: exclaim, deserve, do, move about, fate · To what, where: present fate, earth · 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 (Tortoise, wings, my), 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 Tortoise	det
2	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 exclaimed	nsubj
3	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 moment	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exclaimed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moment	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 deserved	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 deserved	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 deserved	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 deserved	aux
13	deserved	deserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 exclaimed	conj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fate	nmod:poss
15	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fate	amod
16	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deserved	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 do	mark
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 do	obj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 do	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 exclaimed	parataxis
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 wings	case
25	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 do	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 clouds	cc
27	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wings	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 move	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 move	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 move	aux
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 difficulty	case
32	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 move	obl
33	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 wings	acl:relcl
34	about	about	ADV	_	33 move	advmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 earth	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 earth	det
37	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 move	obl
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	the Tortoise			moment		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	deserve in a quote	present · perfect	the Tortoise = tortoise	my present fate				tree rules
3	do in a quote	past	the Tortoise = tortoise				with wings and clouds	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	move about in a quote	can	wings and clouds		the earth		with difficulty; about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on earth=Trajectory
5	fate in a quote		my					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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