Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 32

Concealing his sad plight under a merry guise, the Fox indulged in a lavish praise of the water, saying it was excellent beyond measure, and encouraging him to descend.

Who acts: Fox, water · What happens: conceal, indulge, say, be, encourage, descend · To what, where: sad plight, merry guise, lavish praise, Fox, water · 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 (Fox, water), 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	Concealing	conceal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 indulged	advcl
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 plight	nmod:poss
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plight	amod
4	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Concealing	obj
5	under	under	ADP	_	8 guise	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 guise	det
7	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 guise	amod
8	guise	guise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Concealing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Concealing	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Fox	det
11	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 indulged	nsubj
12	indulged	indulge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 praise	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 praise	det
15	lavish	lavish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 praise	amod
16	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 indulged	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 water	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 praise	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saying	punct
21	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 indulged	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 excellent	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 excellent	cop
24	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 saying	ccomp
25	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	26 measure	case
26	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 excellent	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 encouraging	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 encouraging	cc
29	encouraging	encourage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 saying	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 encouraging	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 descend	mark
32	descend	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 encouraging	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 indulged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	conceal	gerund	the Fox not said here	Fox's sad plight	a merry guise		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plight=Patient under guise=Location
2	indulge	past	the Fox		a lavish praise of the water		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the Fox not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	water			beyond measure; excellent property	tree rules
5	encourage	gerund	the Fox not said here	Fox			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	descend not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fox not said here				vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	plight		Fox				nom plight «state transitive»: poss=agent
8	praise			the water			nom praise «communication 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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