Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 85

Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to which he was exposed, he schemed to convince all the other Foxes that being tailless was much more attractive, thus making up for his own deprivation.

Who acts: Fox, that · What happens: feel, expose, scheme, convince, be, make up · To what, where: life, shame, Fox, other Foxes

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, that), 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	Thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	3 feeling	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thereafter	punct
3	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 schemed	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 life	nmod:poss
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeling	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 burden	det
7	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeling	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 shame	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shame	det
10	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeling	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ridicule	cc
12	ridicule	ridicule	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shame	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 exposed	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 exposed	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 exposed	aux:pass
17	exposed	expose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 shame	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feeling	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 schemed	nsubj
20	schemed	scheme	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	PART	_	22 convince	mark
22	convince	convince	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 schemed	xcomp
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 Foxes	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Foxes	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Foxes	amod
26	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 convince	iobj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 tailless	nsubj
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 tailless	cop
29	tailless	tailless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Foxes	amod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 attractive	cop
31	much	much	ADV	_	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 attractive	advmod
33	attractive	attractive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tailless	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 making	punct
35	thus	thus	ADV	_	36 making	advmod
36	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 convince	advcl
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 making	compound:prt
38	for	for	ADP	_	41 deprivation	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 deprivation	nmod:poss
40	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 deprivation	amod
41	deprivation	deprivation	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 making	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 schemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund	Fox not said here	Fox's life		the shame and ridicule	thereafter property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme burden=Eventuality
2	expose	past · passive		Fox	the shame and ridicule			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to which=Recipient
3	scheme	past	Fox					vn conspire-71 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	convince	to-infinitive	Fox not said here		all other Foxes			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fox=Experiencer
5	is	gerund	that				tailless property	tree rules
6	is	past	that not said here				attractive property	tree rules
7	make up	gerund	Fox not said here				for Fox's own deprivation; thus property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
8	deprive		Fox					nom deprivation «state 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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