Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 92
The Cat replied, “Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless;” and he made a meal of him.
Who acts: Cat, you, Cock · What happens: reply, abound, not remain, make · To what, where: specious apologies, meal · 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 (Cat, you, Cock), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cat | det |
| 2 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remain | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 remain | punct |
| 6 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 8 abound | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 abound | nsubj |
| 8 | abound | abound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 remain | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 apologies | case |
| 10 | specious | specious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 apologies | amod |
| 11 | apologies | apology | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 abound | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 abound | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 remain | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 remain | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 remain | advmod |
| 16 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 17 | supperless | supperless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 remain | xcomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 meal | det |
| 24 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 meal | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Cat | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | abound in a quote | present | you | specious apologies | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in apology=Location | ||||
| 3 | not remain in a quote | shall | the Cat = cat | supperless property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Cock | a meal of man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Product |
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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