Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 81

He declared that he had not seen him, and yet pointed, all the time he was speaking, to the hut where the Fox lay hidden.

Who acts: Woodcutter, Fox · What happens: declare, not see, point, speak, lie, hide · To what, where: Hound · 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 (Woodcutter, Fox), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 seen	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seen	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 seen	advmod
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 declared	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seen	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pointed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pointed	cc
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 pointed	advmod
12	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 declared	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 speaking	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 speaking	obl:unmarked
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 speaking	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 speaking	aux
19	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 pointed	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hut	punct
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 hut	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hut	det
23	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 speaking	obl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 lay	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Fox	det
26	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	nsubj
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hut	acl:relcl
28	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 lay	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	Woodcutter				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not see	past · perfect	Woodcutter	Hound			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	point	participle	Woodcutter not said here		yet		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	speak speech: other	past · progressive	Woodcutter		time	to the hut	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to hut=Co-Agent
5	lie	past	the Fox				tree rules
6	hide	participle	the Fox not said here				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=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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