Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 45
The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early.
Who acts: cock · What happens: aggravate, resolve, kill, rouse · To what, where: maidens, such excessive labor, cock, mistress
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 (cock), 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 maidens | det |
| 2 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 aggravated | punct |
| 4 | aggravated | aggravate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 maidens | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 labor | case |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 labor | amod |
| 7 | excessive | excessive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 labor | amod |
| 8 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aggravated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 resolved | punct |
| 10 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 labor | acl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 kill | mark |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 resolved | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cock | det |
| 14 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kill | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 roused | nsubj |
| 16 | roused | rouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cock | acl:relcl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 roused | obj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 early | advmod |
| 20 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 roused | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 maidens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aggravate | participle | the maidens not said here | by such excessive labor | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | resolve | participle | such excessive labor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | the cock | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rouse | past | the cock | Maidens's mistress | early property | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Patient |
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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