Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 12

Then said the Wolf: “May no friend of mine ever be in such a plight; for the weight of this chain is enough to spoil the appetite.”

What happens: say, be, spoil · To what, where: Wolf, plight, appetite · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wolf	det
4	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 friend	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 friend	punct
7	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 friend	compound
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 friend	det
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 mine	case
11	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friend	nmod
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 plight	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 plight	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 plight	case
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 plight	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 plight	det
17	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 friend	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 enough	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 weight	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 weight	det
21	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 enough	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 chain	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 chain	det
24	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weight	nmod
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 enough	cop
26	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 spoil	mark
28	spoil	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 enough	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 appetite	det
30	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spoil	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Wolf		then		tree rules
2	is in a quote	infinitive		such plight	ever		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present				for the weight of this chain; enough property	tree rules
4	spoil in a quote	to-infinitive	the appetite				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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