Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 26

Miller, I had indeed to go campaigning before, but I was barbed from counter to tail, and a man went along to groom me; and now I cannot understand what ailed me to prefer the mill before the battle.”

Who acts: Miller, man, I · What happens: have, go, campaign, barb, go along, groom · To what, where: I, counter, me, mill · 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 (Miller, man, I), 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	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Miller	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
8	campaigning	campaign	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 go	xcomp
9	before	before	ADV	_	8 campaigning	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 barbed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 barbed	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 barbed	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 barbed	aux:pass
14	barbed	barb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	parataxis
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 counter	case
16	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 barbed	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 tail	case
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 barbed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 barbed	conj
24	along	along	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 groom	mark
26	groom	groom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 went	xcomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 groom	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 understand	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 understand	cc
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 understand	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 understand	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 understand	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 understand	advmod
34	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	parataxis
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 ailed	nsubj
36	ailed	ail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 understand	ccomp
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 ailed	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 prefer	mark
39	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 ailed	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 mill	det
41	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 prefer	obj
42	before	before	ADP	_	44 battle	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 battle	det
44	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 prefer	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 understand	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Miller				indeed property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	Miller not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	campaign	gerund	Miller not said here				before property	tree rules
4	barb	past · passive		I	counter		to tail	tree rules
5	go along	past	a man				along property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	groom	to-infinitive	a man not said here	me				vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
7	not understand	can	I			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	ail	past		me				vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient i=Experiencer
9	prefer	to-infinitive		the mill		before the battle		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mill=Stimulus

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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