Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 80

The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find.

Who acts: hair · What happens: not wish, become, be, remove, find · To what, where: wife, gray hair

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 (hair), 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 younger	det
2	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 zealous	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 contrary	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 contrary	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 contrary	det
6	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 younger	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wishing	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 wishing	advmod
9	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 contrary	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 become	mark
11	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wishing	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wife	det
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 become	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 man	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wife	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 younger	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 zealous	cop
20	equally	equally	ADV	_	21 zealous	advmod
21	zealous	zealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	in	in	SCONJ	_	23 removing	mark
23	removing	remove	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 zealous	advcl
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 hair	det
25	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hair	amod
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 removing	obj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 find	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 find	aux
29	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hair	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 zealous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not wish	gerund				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	become not said to happen	to-infinitive		the wife of a old man		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is	past			equally, zealous property	tree rules
4	remove	gerund		every gray hair		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
5	find	could	hair	every gray hair not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Topic

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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