Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 90

He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep.

Who acts: Fox · What happens: accuse, be, crow, not permit, sleep · To what, where: Lion, nighttime, Cat

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 accused	nsubj
2	accused	accuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 accused	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 nuisance	case
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 nuisance	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nuisance	det
7	nuisance	nuisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accused	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 men	case
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nuisance	nmod
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 crowing	mark
11	crowing	crow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 accused	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 nighttime	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nighttime	det
14	nighttime	nighttime	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crowing	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 permitting	cc
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 permitting	advmod
17	permitting	permit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 crowing	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 permitting	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sleep	mark
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 permitting	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 accused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accuse	past	Fox	Lion			vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	gerund				of a nuisance; to men	tree rules
3	crow	gerund	Fox not said here		the nighttime		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not permit	gerund	Fox not said here	Cat			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	sleep	to-infinitive	Fox not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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