Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 36
Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!”
Who acts: you · What happens: not content, labor, not wish, be · To what, where: I
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 (you), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 contented | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 contented | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 contented | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 contented | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 contented | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 contented | aux:pass |
| 7 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 wish | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 labor | mark |
| 9 | labor | labor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 contented | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 companions | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 companions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 labor | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wish | cc |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 wish | advmod |
| 16 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 idle | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 idle | cop |
| 19 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wish | xcomp |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 day | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wish | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 Lapdog | case |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 Lapdog | nsubj |
| 25 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Lapdog | amod |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Lapdog | amod |
| 27 | Lapdog | lapdog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wish | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not content | could · perfect · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | labor | to-infinitive | with my companions | vn work-73.2 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with companion=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | not wish | imperative | you not said here | day | like useless little Lapdog | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 4 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | idle property | tree rules |
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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