Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 56

“O, one would not have thought so,” said the other, “by the way you load him.

Who acts: you · What happens: not think, say, load · To what, where: one, other, man · 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), 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	_	12 said	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	8 thought	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 O	punct
4	one	one	PRON	PronType=Ind	8 thought	nsubj:pass
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 thought	advmod
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 thought	aux
8	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
9	so	so	ADV	_	8 thought	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 other	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 load	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 load	punct
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 load	obl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 load	nsubj
21	load	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 load	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other in a quote	would · perfect · passive		one		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the other		tree rules
3	load in a quote	present	you	man	by the way	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme by way=Destination

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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