Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 93

Yielding up her last breath, she gasped forth this lament: “O wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution against the land, and after all to find this seashore, to which I had come for safety, so much more perilous.”

Who acts: Doe, many plans · What happens: yield up, gasp, take, find, come · To what, where: last breath, lament, such precaution, land, seashore

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 (Doe, many plans), 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	Yielding	yield	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 gasped	advcl
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Yielding	compound:prt
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 breath	nmod:poss
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 breath	amod
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yielding	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yielding	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gasped	nsubj
8	gasped	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	forth	forth	ADV	_	8 gasped	advmod
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 lament	det
11	lament	lament	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gasped	obj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 creature	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 creature	punct
14	O	o	INTJ	_	16 creature	discourse
15	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 creature	amod
16	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lament	appos
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 am	obj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 am	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 creature	acl:relcl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 creature	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 take	mark
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gasped	advcl
23	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 precaution	amod
24	precaution	precaution	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
25	against	against	ADP	_	27 land	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 land	det
27	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 perilous	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 perilous	cc
30	after	after	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 perilous	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 find	mark
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 all	advcl
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 seashore	det
35	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 find	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 come	punct
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 come	obl
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 come	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 come	aux
41	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 seashore	acl:relcl
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 safety	case
43	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 come	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 all	punct
45	so	so	ADV	_	48 perilous	advmod
46	much	much	ADV	_	47 more	advmod
47	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	48 perilous	advmod
48	perilous	perilous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gasped	parataxis
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 perilous	punct
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	48 perilous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	yield up	gerund	Doe not said here	Doe's last breath			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
2	gasp	past	Doe	this lament		forth property	tree rules
3	take in a quote	to-infinitive	Doe not said here	such precaution	the land		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme against land=Destination
4	find in a quote	to-infinitive	Doe not said here	this seashore			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seashore=Topic
5	come in a quote	past · perfect	the many plans = plan		this seashore	for safety	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to which=Initial_Location

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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