Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 30
The Sheep, writhing with pain, said, “Why do you hurt me so, Mistress?
Who acts: Sheep, you · What happens: say, hurt · To what, where: Sheep · 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 (Sheep, you), 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 Sheep | det |
| 2 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 writhing | punct |
| 4 | writhing | writhing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sheep | conj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 pain | case |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 writhing | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sheep | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hurt | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hurt | punct |
| 11 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 hurt | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hurt | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 hurt | nsubj |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 hurt | obj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 hurt | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Mistress | punct |
| 18 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hurt | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the Sheep and writhing with pain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hurt in a quote | present · do-support | you | the Sheep and writhing with pain = sheep | Mistress obl | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=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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