Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 83
As soon as they were well away, the Fox departed without taking any notice of the Woodcutter: whereon he called to him and reproached him, saying, “You ungrateful fellow, you owe your life to me, and yet you leave me without a word of thanks.”
Who acts: Fox, Woodcutter, You · What happens: be, depart, take, call, reproach, say · To what, where: notice, huntsman, Woodcutter, life, thanks · 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 (Fox, Woodcutter, You), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 departed | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 away | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 away | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 away | cop |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fox | det |
| 10 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 departed | nsubj |
| 11 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 taking | mark |
| 13 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 departed | advcl |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 notice | det |
| 15 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taking | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Woodcutter | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Woodcutter | det |
| 18 | Woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 notice | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 20 | whereon | whereon | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 called | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 called | nsubj |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 departed | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 called | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 reproached | cc |
| 26 | reproached | reproach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 called | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 reproached | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saying | punct |
| 29 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 reproached | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fellow | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 fellow | punct |
| 32 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 fellow | nsubj |
| 33 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fellow | amod |
| 34 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 saying | ccomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 owe | punct |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 owe | nsubj |
| 37 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 life | nmod:poss |
| 39 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 owe | obj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 me | case |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 owe | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 leave | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 leave | cc |
| 44 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 46 leave | advmod |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 leave | nsubj |
| 46 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 departed | conj |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 leave | obj |
| 48 | without | without | ADP | _ | 50 word | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 word | det |
| 50 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 leave | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 thanks | case |
| 52 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 word | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 departed | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Fox | away, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | depart | past | the Fox | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | the Fox not said here | any notice of the Woodcutter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | past | Woodcutter | huntsman | whereon property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | reproach | past | Woodcutter not said here | Woodcutter | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | Woodcutter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | fellow in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | owe in a quote | present | you | your life | Woodcutter | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent life=Theme to i=Goal | |||
| 9 | leave in a quote | present | you | Woodcutter | yet | without a word of thanks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||
| 10 | notice | the Woodcutter | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 11 | word in a quote | thanks | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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