Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 46

At that moment the master himself entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly fed, he went up to their racks and cried out: “Why is there such a scarcity of fodder?

Who acts: master, Stag · What happens: enter, have, complain, not feed, go up, cry out · To what, where: oxen, scarcity · 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 (master, Stag), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entered	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 master	det
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entered	nsubj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 entered	nsubj
7	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 scarcity	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
10	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 entered	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 complain	mark
13	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 fed	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 oxen	nmod:poss
16	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fed	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fed	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 fed	advmod
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 fed	aux:pass
20	properly	properly	ADV	_	21 fed	advmod
21	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 complain	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 entered	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 went	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 racks	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 racks	nmod:poss
28	racks	rack	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 went	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cried	cc
30	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 went	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 cried	compound:prt
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 is	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 is	punct
34	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	35 is	advmod
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 scarcity	cop
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 is	expl
37	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	39 scarcity	det:predet
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 scarcity	det
39	scarcity	scarcity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 fodder	case
41	fodder	fodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 scarcity	nmod
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	39 scarcity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the master		moment		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	gerund					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	past					tree rules
4	complain speech: other	to-infinitive					vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not feed	past · perfect · passive		Stag's oxen		properly property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
6	go up	past	Stag			to oxen's racks	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	cry out speech: express	past	Stag not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a in a quote	present		such scarcity		of fodder	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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