Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 71

The Ass found that he had fallen into worse hands, and noting his master’s occupation, said, groaning: “It would have been better for me to have been either starved by the one, or to have been overworked by the other of my former masters, than to have been bought by my present owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, and make me useful to him.”

Who acts: Ass, Shadow, one, present owner, I, master · What happens: find, fall, note, say, groan, be · To what, where: worse hands, occupation, me, hide · 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 (Ass, Shadow, one, present owner), 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 Ass	det
2	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 fallen	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fallen	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fallen	aux
7	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 found	ccomp
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 hands	case
9	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 hands	amod
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fallen	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
13	noting	note	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 said	ccomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 master	nmod:poss
15	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 occupation	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 master	case
17	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 noting	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 noting	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 groaning	punct
21	groaning	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 said	ccomp
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 better	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 better	punct
24	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 better	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 better	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 better	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 better	cop
28	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 groaning	parataxis
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 starved	mark
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 starved	nsubj
31	to	to	PART	_	35 starved	mark
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 starved	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 starved	aux:pass
34	either	either	CCONJ	_	35 starved	cc:preconj
35	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 better	advcl
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 one	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 one	det
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 starved	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 overworked	punct
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 overworked	cc
41	to	to	PART	_	44 overworked	mark
42	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 overworked	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 overworked	aux:pass
44	overworked	overwork	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 said	conj
45	by	by	ADP	_	47 other	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 other	det
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 overworked	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 masters	case
49	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 masters	nmod:poss
50	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 masters	amod
51	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 other	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 bought	punct
53	than	than	SCONJ	_	57 bought	mark
54	to	to	PART	_	57 bought	mark
55	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 bought	aux
56	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 bought	aux:pass
57	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 overworked	conj
58	by	by	ADP	_	61 owner	case
59	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 owner	nmod:poss
60	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 owner	compound
61	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 bought	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 tan	punct
63	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	70 tan	nsubj
64	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	70 tan	aux
65	even	even	ADV	_	70 tan	advmod
66	after	after	ADP	_	69 dead	case
67	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	69 dead	nsubj
68	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	69 dead	cop
69	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 tan	obl
70	tan	tan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 owner	acl:relcl
71	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	72 hide	nmod:poss
72	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 tan	obj
73	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 make	punct
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 make	cc
75	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 found	ccomp
76	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	75 make	obj
77	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 make	xcomp
78	to	to	ADP	_	79 him	case
79	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 useful	obl
80	.	.	PUNCT	_	75 make	punct
81	”	"	PUNCT	_	75 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	the Ass			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fall	past · perfect	Shadow		into worse hands result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result
3	note	gerund		Shadow's master's occupation		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent occupation=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	groan	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is in a quote	would · perfect	Ass		good property	tree rules
7	starve in a quote	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	the one	me		tree rules
8	overwork in a quote	to-infinitive · perfect · passive			by the other	tree rules
9	buy in a quote	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	my present owner			vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
10	is in a quote	present	I		dead property	tree rules
11	tan in a quote	future	my present owner	my hide		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient
12	make in a quote	infinitive		me	useful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product
13	occupy		Shadow's master			nom occupation «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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