Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 51
In this manner they had not proceeded far when they met a company of women and children: “Why, you lazy old fellow,” cried several tongues at once, “how can you ride upon the beast, while that poor little lad there can hardly keep pace by the side of you?”
Who acts: limbs, you, lazy old fellow, that · What happens: not proceed, meet, fellow, cry, ride, lad · To what, where: limbs, manner, company, several tongues, pace · 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 (limbs, you, lazy old fellow, that), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proceeded | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 proceeded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 proceeded | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 proceeded | advmod |
| 7 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 proceeded | advmod |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 met | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 met | nsubj |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 proceeded | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 company | det |
| 13 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 women | case |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 company | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 children | cc |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 women | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 cried | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 cried | punct |
| 20 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 cried | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fellow | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 fellow | nsubj |
| 23 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fellow | amod |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fellow | amod |
| 25 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cried | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fellow | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 fellow | punct |
| 28 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 proceeded | conj |
| 29 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tongues | amod |
| 30 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cried | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 once | case |
| 32 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 28 cried | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 ride | punct |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 ride | punct |
| 35 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 ride | advmod |
| 36 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 ride | aux |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 ride | nsubj |
| 38 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 cried | parataxis |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 beast | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 beast | det |
| 41 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ride | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 keep | punct |
| 43 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 51 keep | mark |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 lad | nsubj |
| 45 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 lad | amod |
| 46 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 lad | amod |
| 47 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 keep | advcl |
| 48 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 47 lad | advmod |
| 49 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 keep | aux |
| 50 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 51 keep | advmod |
| 51 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 ride | conj |
| 52 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 keep | obj |
| 53 | by | by | ADP | _ | 55 side | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 side | det |
| 55 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 keep | obl |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 you | case |
| 57 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 55 side | nmod |
| 58 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 proceeded | punct |
| 59 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not proceed | past · perfect · passive | limbs = limb | this manner | far property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | meet | past | limbs = limb | a company of women and children | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | fellow in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | lazy old fellow | several tongues | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ride in a quote | can | you | upon the beast | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | lad in a quote | that | there | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | keep in a quote | can | you not said here | pace | by the side of you; hardly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pace=Theme by side=Location |
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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