Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 140
On finding that the Hare also had run off, he said, “I am rightly served, for having let go of the food that I had in my hand for the chance of obtaining more.”
Who acts: Lion, Hare, chance · What happens: find, run off, say, serve, let, go · To what, where: Lion, food, hand, more · 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, Hare, chance), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 finding | mark |
| 2 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 run | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hare | det |
| 5 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 run | nsubj |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 run | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 run | aux |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 finding | ccomp |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 run | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 finding | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 served | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 served | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 served | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 served | aux:pass |
| 17 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 18 served | advmod |
| 18 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 let | mark |
| 21 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 let | aux |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 served | advcl |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 food | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 food | det |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 had | obj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 food | acl:relcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 hand | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hand | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 chance | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 chance | det |
| 35 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obl |
| 36 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 37 obtaining | mark |
| 37 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 chance | acl |
| 38 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 obtaining | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | Lion not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run off | past · perfect | the Hare | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | serve in a quote | present · passive | Lion | rightly property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | let in a quote | gerund · perfect | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | go in a quote | infinitive | of the food | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of food=Initial_Location | |||||
| 7 | have in a quote | past | Lion | the food | my hand | for the chance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||
| 8 | obtain in a quote | gerund | the chance not said here | more | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset more=Theme |
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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