Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 35
The Ass, as he returned to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus lamented: “I have brought it all on myself!
Who acts: contrary, Mule · What happens: return, beat, lament, bring · To what, where: Ass, stall, death
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 (contrary, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ass | det |
| 2 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lamented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 returned | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Ass | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 stall | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stall | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 10 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 stall | acl |
| 11 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 10 beaten | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beaten | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lamented | punct |
| 15 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 lamented | advmod |
| 16 | lamented | lament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 brought | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 brought | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 brought | aux |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 lamented | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | obj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 it | det |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 myself | case |
| 25 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 brought | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 lamented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | contrary | the Ass not said here | contrary's stall | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ass=Theme to stall=Destination | |||
| 2 | beat | participle | contrary's stall not said here | to death; nearly property | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V PP ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient to death=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | lament | participle · passive | the Ass | thus property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | present · perfect | the Mule = mule | death | on the Mule = mule | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on myself=Destination |
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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