Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 52

“What a selfish Dog!” said one of them to his companions; “he cannot eat the hay himself, and yet refuses to allow those to eat who can.”

Who acts: selfish Dog, Dog, those · What happens: say, not eat, refuse, not allow, eat · To what, where: one, hay, those · 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 (selfish Dog, Dog, those), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 Dog	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Dog	det
4	selfish	selfish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Dog	amod
5	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Dog	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 Dog	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 said	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 one	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 companions	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 companions	nmod:poss
14	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 eat	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 eat	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 eat	advmod
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hay	det
22	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	obj
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 eat	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 refuses	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 refuses	cc
26	yet	yet	ADV	_	27 refuses	advmod
27	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 allow	mark
29	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 refuses	xcomp
30	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 allow	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 eat	mark
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 allow	xcomp
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 can	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 eat	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 refuses	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 refuses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	what selfish Dog	one of bystanders		to Dog's companions	tree rules
2	not eat in a quote	can	Dog	the hay		Dog obl:unmarked	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient
3	refuse in a quote	present			yet		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not allow in a quote	to-infinitive		those			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer that=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	eat not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	those not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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