Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 54
The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying, “It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate on the fruits of my exertions.”
Who acts: Hound, you, my · What happens: feel, aggrieve, reproach, say, be, have · To what, where: this, companion, labor, chase, fruits · 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 (Hound, you, my), 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 Hound | det |
| 2 | Hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reproached | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| 4 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Hound | acl |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 aggrieved | advmod |
| 6 | aggrieved | aggrieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 feeling | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 aggrieved | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hound | punct |
| 10 | reproached | reproach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 companion | nmod:poss |
| 12 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reproached | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 reproached | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hard | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 hard | punct |
| 17 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hard | expl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hard | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 hard | advmod |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hard | csubj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 labor | det:predet |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 labor | det |
| 25 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 assist | punct |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 assist | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 assist | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 assist | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 assist | nsubj |
| 31 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 assist | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 assist | advmod |
| 33 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 reproached | parataxis |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 chase | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 chase | det |
| 36 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 assist | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 luxuriate | punct |
| 38 | luxuriate | luxuriate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 assist | conj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 fruits | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 fruits | det |
| 41 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 luxuriate | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 exertions | case |
| 43 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 exertions | nmod:poss |
| 44 | exertions | exertion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 fruits | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reproached | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 reproached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | the Hound not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | aggrieve | participle | the Hound not said here | this | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | reproach | past | the Hound | Housedog's companion | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Hound not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | all labor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labor=Patient | |||||
| 7 | not assist in a quote | present · do-support | you | the chase | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | luxuriate in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the fruits of my exertions | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | exert in a quote | my | nom exertion «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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