Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 43

“Look there,” cried one of them, “did you ever see such fellows, to be trudging along the road on foot when they might ride?”

Who acts: you, Miller · What happens: look, cry, see, trudge, ride · To what, where: one, such fellows, foot · 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 (you, Miller), 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	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	parataxis
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Look	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 cried	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 see	advmod
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fellows	amod
17	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 see	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 trudging	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	21 trudging	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 trudging	aux
21	trudging	trudge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cried	advcl
22	along	along	ADP	_	24 road	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 road	det
24	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trudging	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 foot	case
26	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trudging	obl
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 ride	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ride	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 ride	aux
30	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 trudging	parataxis
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 ride	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 ride	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive			there			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past		one of Miller				tree rules
3	see in a quote	past · do-support	you	such fellows		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fellow=Stimulus
4	trudge in a quote	to-infinitive · progressive			foot		along the road	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory
5	ride in a quote	might	Miller					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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