Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 87

It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: “I wonder how you, who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong winds.”

Who acts: oak, Fox, strong winds · What happens: fall, address, wonder, be, not crush · To what, where: Reeds, you · 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 (oak, Fox, strong winds), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	among	among	ADP	_	5 Reeds	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 Reeds	det
5	Reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 addressed	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 addressed	obj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 addressed	nsubj
9	thus	thus	ADV	_	10 addressed	advmod
10	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Reeds	acl:relcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 wonder	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 wonder	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 wonder	nsubj
14	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	parataxis
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 you	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 wonder	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 light	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 light	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 light	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 light	advmod
21	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wonder	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 weak	cc
23	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 light	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 crushed	punct
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 crushed	aux:pass
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 crushed	advmod
27	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	28 crushed	advmod
28	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 light	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	32 winds	case
30	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 winds	det
31	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 winds	amod
32	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 crushed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past	oak		among some Reeds	tree rules
2	address	past	oak	some Reeds	thus property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Destination
3	wonder speech: ask in a quote	present	the Fox = fox	you		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	present			light property	tree rules
5	be in a quote					tree rules
6	not crush in a quote	present · passive	this strong winds		entirely property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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