Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 45

Wolf!” and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains.

Who acts: neighbors · What happens: come, help, laugh, pain · To what, where: Shepherd

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 (neighbors), 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	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laughed	parataxis
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Wolf	punct
3	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Wolf	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughed	cc
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neighbors	nmod:poss
7	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 laughed	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 help	mark
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 came	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 help	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laughed	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 pains	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 pains	nmod:poss
18	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 laughed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	Shepherd's neighbors			tree rules
2	help in a quote	to-infinitive	Shepherd's neighbors not said here	Shepherd		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
3	laugh in a quote	past			at neighbors = neighbor; for neighbors's pains	tree rules
4	pain in a quote		neighbors = neighbor			nom pain «state 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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