Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 121

The Old Woman, when she recovered her sight and saw none of her goods in her house, would give him nothing.

Who acts: infirmity, Old Woman · What happens: recover, see, give, sight · To what, where: sight, none, house, nothing, physician

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (infirmity, Old Woman), 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	3 Woman	det
2	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Woman	amod
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 recovered	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 recovered	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 recovered	nsubj
7	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Woman	acl:relcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sight	nmod:poss
9	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 recovered	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 recovered	conj
12	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 saw	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 goods	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 goods	nmod:poss
15	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 none	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 house	nmod:poss
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Woman	punct
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 give	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	recover	past	infirmity	infirmity's sight			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
2	see	past	infirmity not said here	none		infirmity's house	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer none=Stimulus
3	give	would	the Old Woman	nothing	physician		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Theme
4	sight		infirmity				nom sight «cognition 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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