Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 118

The Lion and the Bear saw him, but not being able to get up, said, “Woe be to us, that we should have fought and belabored ourselves only to serve the turn of a Fox.”

Who acts: Lion, Woe, we · What happens: see, not be, get up, say, be, fight · To what, where: Kid, ourselves, turn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, Woe, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Lion	det
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Bear	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bear	det
5	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Lion	conj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 able	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 able	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 able	advmod
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 able	cop
12	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saw	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 able	xcomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 get	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 us	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 us	punct
20	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 us	nsubj
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 us	cop
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 us	case
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 said	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fought	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 fought	mark
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 fought	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 fought	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 fought	aux
29	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 said	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 belabored	cc
31	belabored	belabor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 fought	conj
32	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 fought	obj
33	only	only	ADV	_	35 serve	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 serve	mark
35	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 fought	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 turn	det
37	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 serve	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 Fox	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 Fox	det
40	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 turn	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Lion and the Bear	Kid		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	not is	gerund	the Lion and the Bear not said here		able property	tree rules
3	get up	to-infinitive	the Lion and the Bear not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	infinitive	Woe		to us	tree rules
6	fight in a quote	should · perfect	we	ourselves		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Co-Agent
7	belabor in a quote	participle	we not said here			tree rules
8	serve in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	the turn of a Fox		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Attribute

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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