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

How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in the very vessel which contained it so sweet a perfume!”

Who acts: Wine, vessel · What happens: be, leave behind, contain · To what, where: vessel, wine

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 (Wine, vessel), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 nice	advmod
2	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 been	advcl
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 been	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wine	det
5	Wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 been	nsubj
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	5 Wine	nmod:unmarked
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 been	aux
8	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 leaves	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 leaves	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 leaves	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 leaves	nsubj
12	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	behind	behind	ADV	_	12 leaves	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 vessel	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 vessel	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 vessel	advmod
17	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaves	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 contained	nsubj
19	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 vessel	acl:relcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 contained	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 sweet	advmod
22	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 contained	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 perfume	det
24	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sweet	nsubj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 sweet	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 leaves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be	must · perfect	the Wine wine			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave behind	present	wine		in the vessel result; behind property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in vessel=Result
3	contain	past	the vessel	wine	sweet property	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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