Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 96

While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: “Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?”

Who acts: least, neighbor, you · What happens: lament, bewail, cry, run, learn, happen · To what, where: sores, heaven, earth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (least, neighbor, 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 lamented	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lamented	nsubj
3	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 said	parataxis
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bewailed	cc
5	bewailed	bewail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lamented	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sores	nmod:poss
7	sores	sore	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bewailed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bruises	cc
9	bruises	bruise	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sores	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lamented	conj
13	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	12 cried	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 help	case
15	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ran	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 neighbor	det
18	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ran	nsubj
19	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 well	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 well	det
22	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ran	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 learning	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 learning	cc
25	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lamented	advcl
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 happened	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 happened	aux
28	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 learning	ccomp
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 Hark	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 Hark	punct
32	Hark	Hark	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 said	parataxis
33	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 Hark	flat
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fellow	punct
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fellow	amod
36	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Hark	appos
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 why	punct
38	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	36 fellow	acl:relcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 striving	punct
40	in	in	SCONJ	_	41 striving	mark
41	striving	strive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 why	advcl:relcl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 pry	mark
43	pry	pry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 striving	xcomp
44	into	into	ADP	_	48 heaven	case
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	48 heaven	nsubj
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 heaven	cop
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 heaven	case
48	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pry	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 manage	punct
50	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 manage	aux
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 manage	nsubj
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 manage	advmod
53	manage	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 Hark	conj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 see	mark
55	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 manage	xcomp
56	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	59 earth	nsubj
57	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 earth	cop
58	on	on	ADP	_	59 earth	case
59	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 see	ccomp
60	?	?	PUNCT	_	53 manage	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 Hark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lament	past	least				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	bewail	past	least not said here	least's sores and bruises			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sore=Stimulus
3	cry speech: express	past	least not said here			for help; loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient
4	run	past	a neighbor			to the well result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to well=Result
5	learn	gerund	least not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: ask	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	strive in a quote	gerund					tree rules
9	pry in a quote	to-infinitive					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is in a quote	present			heaven		tree rules
11	not manage in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
12	not see in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
13	is in a quote	present			earth		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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