Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 25

If I had only been willing to assist the Ass a little in his need, I should not now be bearing, together with his burden, himself as well.”

Who acts: I, Mule · What happens: be, assist, not bear, need, burden · To what, where: Ass

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 (I, Mule), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 willing	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 willing	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 willing	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 willing	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 willing	cop
6	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 assist	mark
8	assist	assist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 willing	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Ass	det
10	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 assist	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 little	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Ass	amod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 need	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 need	nmod:poss
15	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 little	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 willing	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 bearing	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bearing	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 bearing	advmod
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 bearing	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 bearing	aux
22	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 willing	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 together	punct
24	together	together	ADV	_	22 bearing	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 burden	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 burden	nmod:poss
27	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bearing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 himself	punct
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 willing	obl
30	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	29 himself	advmod
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 as	fixed
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 willing	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	I			Mule obl; willing property	tree rules
2	assist	to-infinitive	I not said here	the Ass			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Beneficiary
3	not bear	should · progressive	I		now	with Mule's burden; together property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	need		Mule				nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent
5	burden		Mule				nom burden «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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