Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 74

“It is a double grief to me,” he exclaimed, “that I should perish by an arrow feathered from my own wings.”

Who acts: look, double grief · What happens: be, exclaim, perish, feather · To what, where: double grief, arrow, own wings · 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 (look, double grief), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 grief	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grief	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grief	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 grief	det
5	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grief	amod
6	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exclaimed	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 grief	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grief	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 grief	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 exclaimed	nsubj
12	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 perish	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 perish	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 perish	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 perish	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 perish	aux
18	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 exclaimed	ccomp
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 arrow	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 arrow	det
21	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 perish	obl
22	feathered	feather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 arrow	acl
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 wings	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wings	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wings	amod
26	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 feathered	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 perish	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 perish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	look	a double grief	a double grief = grief			tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	a double grief					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	perish in a quote	should	a double grief = grief				by a arrow	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	feather in a quote	participle		a arrow not said here		my own wings		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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