Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 37

When the Goat upbraided him for breaking his promise, he turned around and cried out, “You foolish old fellow!

Who acts: Goat, You, Fox · What happens: upbraid, break, turn around, cry out, fellow, promise · To what, where: Fox, promise · 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 (Goat, You, Fox), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 upbraided	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Goat	det
3	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 upbraided	nsubj
4	upbraided	upbraid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 turned	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 upbraided	obj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 breaking	mark
7	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 upbraided	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 promise	nmod:poss
9	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 breaking	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 upbraided	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 turned	nsubj
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	around	around	ADV	_	12 turned	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cried	cc
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 turned	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 cried	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fellow	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 fellow	punct
19	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 fellow	nsubj
20	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fellow	amod
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fellow	amod
22	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cried	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	upbraid	past	the Goat	Fox		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	break	gerund	the Goat not said here	Fox's promise		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient
3	turn around	past	Goat		around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	cry out speech: express	past	Goat not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fellow in a quote		You			tree rules
6	promise		Fox			nom promise «communication 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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