The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion and the Fox, sentence 8
"I should be glad to do as you ask," he added, "but I have noticed that there are many footprints leading into your cave and none coming out.
Who acts: Fox, you, Lion, many footprints · What happens: be, do, ask, add, notice, lead · To what, where: cave · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, you, Lion, many footprints), 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 | _ | 5 glad | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | cop |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 added | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 added | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 added | nsubj |
| 14 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 added | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 added | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 noticed | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 noticed | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 noticed | aux |
| 20 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 glad | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 are | mark |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 are | expl |
| 23 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 noticed | ccomp |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 footprints | amod |
| 25 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 are | nsubj |
| 26 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 footprints | acl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 cave | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 cave | nmod:poss |
| 29 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leading | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 none | cc |
| 31 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 29 cave | conj |
| 32 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 none | acl |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 coming | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | should | Fox | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Fox not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | Fox | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | notice in a quote | present · perfect | the Lion = lion | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | does in a quote | present | many footprints | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | lead in a quote | gerund | many footprints not said here | your cave | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into cave=Destination | ||||
| 8 | come out in a quote | gerund | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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