Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 37

The Ass said, “Why, I saw the Monkey do this very thing yesterday, and you all laughed heartily, as if it afforded you very great amusement.”

Who acts: Ass, Monkey, you · What happens: say, see, do, laugh, afford · To what, where: thing, you · 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 (Ass, Monkey, 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 Ass	det
2	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Why	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Why	punct
6	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 said	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Monkey	det
11	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	ccomp
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 thing	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 thing	advmod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obj
16	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thing	nmod:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 laughed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 laughed	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 laughed	nsubj
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 laughed	advmod
21	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
22	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	21 laughed	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 afforded	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 afforded	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 afforded	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 afforded	nsubj
27	afforded	afford	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 laughed	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 afforded	obj
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 great	advmod
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 amusement	amod
31	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 afforded	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Ass			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	past	the Ass = ass			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do in a quote	present	the Monkey	this thing yesterday		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	laugh in a quote	past	you		all, heartily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	afford a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	Monkey	you		tree rules

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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