Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 4

“Woe is me,” exclaimed the Doe, “who have escaped from man, only to throw myself into the mouth of a wild beast?”

Who acts: Woe, Doe · What happens: be, exclaim, escape, throw · To what, where: Doe, mouth · 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 (Woe, Doe), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct
2	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 me	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 me	cop
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 exclaimed	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 me	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 me	punct
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Doe	det
9	Doe	Doe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 exclaimed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 escaped	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 escaped	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 escaped	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 escaped	aux
14	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 exclaimed	parataxis
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 man	case
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 escaped	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 throw	punct
18	only	only	ADV	_	20 throw	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 throw	mark
20	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 escaped	conj
21	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 throw	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 mouth	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mouth	det
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throw	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 beast	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 beast	det
27	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beast	amod
28	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mouth	nmod
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Woe	the Doe = doe		tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	the Doe			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	escape in a quote	present · perfect			from man	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from man=Initial_Location
4	throw in a quote	to-infinitive		the Doe = doe	into the mouth of a wild beast result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer myself=Theme into mouth=Result

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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