Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 56

When however it reached the beach, they discovered that it was only a large faggot of sticks, and one of them said to his companions, “We have waited for no purpose, for after all there is nothing to see but a load of wood.”

Who acts: object, Travelers, one, We, nothing · What happens: reach, discover, be, say, wait, see · To what, where: beach, large faggot, companions · 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 (object, Travelers, one, We), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
2	however	however	ADV	PronType=Int	4 reached	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 discovered	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beach	det
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 discovered	nsubj
9	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 faggot	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 faggot	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 faggot	cop
13	only	only	ADV	_	16 faggot	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 faggot	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 faggot	amod
16	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 discovered	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 sticks	case
18	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 faggot	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 said	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 one	nmod
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 discovered	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 companions	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 companions	nmod:poss
27	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 said	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 waited	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 waited	punct
30	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 waited	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 waited	aux
32	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 said	ccomp
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 purpose	case
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 purpose	det
35	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 waited	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 all	punct
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 all	case
38	after	after	ADP	_	39 all	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 waited	conj
40	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	41 is	expl
41	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 all	conj
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	41 is	nsubj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 see	mark
44	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 nothing	acl
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 load	cc
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 load	det
47	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 nothing	conj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 wood	case
49	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 load	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 discovered	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	object	the beach			however property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent beach=Theme
2	discover	past	Travelers = traveler					vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	object	a large faggot			of sticks	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	one of Travelers		Lion's companions			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to companion=Recipient clause=Topic
5	wait in a quote	present · perfect	We				for no purpose	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	be in a quote	present	nothing			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see in a quote	to-infinitive	nothing not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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