Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 8
The Fish, panting convulsively, thus entreated for his life: “O Sir, what good can I be to you, and how little am I worth?
Who acts: Fish, Doe · What happens: pant, entreat, be · To what, where: Sir · 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 (Fish, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fish | det |
| 2 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 entreated | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 panting | punct |
| 4 | panting | pant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Fish | acl |
| 5 | convulsively | convulsively | ADV | _ | 4 panting | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fish | punct |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 entreated | advmod |
| 8 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entreated | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sir | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sir | punct |
| 14 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 15 Sir | discourse |
| 15 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 entreated | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 good | punct |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 good | nsubj |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Sir | amod |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 you | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 you | nsubj |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 you | cop |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 good | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 worth | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 worth | cc |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 little | advmod |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 am | advmod |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 worth | cop |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 worth | nsubj |
| 30 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 entreated | parataxis |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 entreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pant | gerund | the Fish not said here | convulsively property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | entreat | past | the Fish | Sir | for Fish's life; thus property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | can | the Doe = doe | to you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the Doe = doe | worth property | tree rules |
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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