Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 26

The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: “My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting.”

Who acts: Fox, voice, wit · What happens: pick up, address, be, want · To what, where: flesh, Crow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, voice, wit), 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 Fox	det
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	nsubj
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 picked	advmod
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picked	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 picked	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 addressed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 addressed	cc
9	thus	thus	ADV	_	10 addressed	advmod
10	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Crow	det
12	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 addressed	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Crow	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 Crow	punct
15	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 Crow	nmod:poss
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Crow	amod
17	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 addressed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 right	punct
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 voice	nmod:poss
20	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 right	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Crow	parataxis
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 right	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wanting	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 wanting	cc
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wit	nmod:poss
27	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wanting	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 wanting	aux
29	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 picked	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	the Fox	flesh		quickly property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	address	past	the Fox not said here		the Crow	My good Crow obl; thus property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Destination
3	is in a quote	present	your voice			enough, right property	tree rules
4	want in a quote	present · progressive	your wit				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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