Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 17

Upon which a Currier stood up and said, “Sirs, I differ from you altogether: there is no material for resistance equal to a covering of hides; and nothing so good as leather.”

Who acts: Currier, master, material · What happens: stand up, say, differ, be · To what, where: Sirs · 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: who acts (Currier, master, material), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 stood	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Currier	det
4	Currier	Currier	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 stood	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Sirs	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 Sirs	punct
11	Sirs	sir	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 differ	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 differ	nsubj
14	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	parataxis
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 differ	obl
17	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	14 differ	advmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 is	punct
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 is	expl
20	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 differ	parataxis
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 material	det
22	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 is	nsubj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 resistance	case
24	resistance	resistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 material	nmod
25	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 resistance	amod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 covering	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 covering	det
28	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 equal	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 hides	case
30	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 covering	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 nothing	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 nothing	cc
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 stood	parataxis
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 good	advmod
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 nothing	amod
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 leather	case
37	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 good	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 nothing	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	a Currier				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a Currier not said here	Sirs			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sir=Topic
3	differ in a quote	present	the master = master			from you; altogether property	vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from you=Co-Theme
4	be in a quote	present	no material for resistance		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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