Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 119

It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all the profit.

Who acts: It, one man · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: toil

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 (It, one man), 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	3 happens	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 happens	advmod
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 has	mark
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 man	nummod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happens	advcl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 toil	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 toil	det
10	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 profit	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 profit	cc
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 profit	det
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 profit	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 profit	det
16	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happens	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happens	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It					sometimes property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	one man	all toil					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toil=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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