Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 15
The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: “For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed.”
Who acts: Ox, this · What happens: see, do, say, allow, live, sacrifice · To what, where: this, idleness, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ox, this), 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 Ox | det |
| 2 | Ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 done | obj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux:pass |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 done | aux:pass |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 smile | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 smile | det |
| 13 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Heifer | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Heifer | det |
| 16 | Heifer | Heifer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 smile | nmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 allowed | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 allowed | punct |
| 19 | For | for | ADP | _ | 20 this | case |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 allowed | aux:pass |
| 23 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 live | mark |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 allowed | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 idleness | case |
| 27 | idleness | idleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 live | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sacrificed | punct |
| 29 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 sacrificed | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 sacrificed | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sacrificed | aux:pass |
| 32 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 35 sacrificed | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 sacrificed | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 sacrificed | aux:pass |
| 35 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 allowed | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Ox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | past · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | with a smile to the Heifer | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with smile=Manner | |||||
| 4 | allow in a quote | past · passive | this | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | live not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | this not said here | idleness | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in idleness=Location | ||||
| 6 | sacrifice in a quote | past · passive | you | presently property | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
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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