Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 34
Its owner lit it again, and said: “Boast no more, but henceforth be content to give thy light in silence.
Who acts: owner, thy · What happens: light, say, boast, be, give · To what, where: puff, more, light, silence · 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 (owner, thy), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 owner | nmod:poss |
| 2 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lit | nsubj |
| 3 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lit | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 lit | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lit | parataxis |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Boast | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Boast | punct |
| 11 | Boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 Boast | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 content | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 content | cc |
| 16 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 18 content | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 content | cop |
| 18 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Boast | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 give | mark |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 content | xcomp |
| 21 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 light | nmod:poss |
| 22 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 silence | case |
| 24 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past | puff's owner | puff | again | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | boast speech: other in a quote | infinitive | more | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | infinitive | content, henceforth property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | thy light | silence | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | ||||
| 6 | light in a quote | thy | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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