Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 46

When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.

Who acts: Maidens · What happens: do, find, prepare, hear, wake up, work · To what, where: this, Maidens, middle · 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 (Maidens), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 done	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 found	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 done	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 prepared	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 prepared	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 prepared	aux
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 prepared	advmod
13	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 found	ccomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 themselves	case
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 prepared	obl
16	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 troubles	amod
17	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 prepared	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mistress	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 mistress	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mistress	nmod:poss
21	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 prepared	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hearing	punct
23	no	no	ADV	_	24 longer	advmod
24	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 hearing	advmod
25	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 found	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hour	det
27	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hearing	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 cock	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cock	det
30	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hearing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 woke	punct
32	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 woke	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 woke	compound:prt
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 work	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 work	nmod:poss
37	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 woke	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 middle	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 middle	det
40	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 work	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 night	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 night	det
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 middle	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	Maidens = maiden	this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	find	past	Maidens = maiden					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	prepare	past · perfect · passive		Maidens = maiden			for Maidens = maiden; for Maidens's mistress	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary trouble=Product
4	hear	gerund	Maidens = maiden not said here			hour	from the cock; long property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from cock=Source
5	wake up	past	Maidens = maiden not said here	Maidens = maiden			to Maidens's work in the middle of the night	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	work		Maidens = maiden		the middle of the night			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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