Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 34

The Hound looked up and said, “It was not my fault master: my spirit was as good as ever, but I could not help my infirmities.

Who acts: Hound, boar, spirit · What happens: look up, say, not be, be, not help · To what, where: fault master, infirmities · 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 (Hound, boar, spirit), 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	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 looked	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 master	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 master	punct
9	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 master	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 master	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 master	advmod
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 master	nmod:poss
13	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 master	compound
14	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 good	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 spirit	nmod:poss
17	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 good	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 good	cop
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 master	conj
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 ever	case
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 good	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 help	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 help	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 help	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 help	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 help	advmod
28	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looked	parataxis
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 infirmities	nmod:poss
30	infirmities	infirmity	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 help	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look up	past	the Hound			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Hound not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is a in a quote	past	boar	my fault master		tree rules
4	is in a quote	past	my spirit		good property	tree rules
5	not help in a quote	could	the Hound = hound	my infirmities		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infirmity=Beneficiary

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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