The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 10

With such proof of the danger and uselessness of having a tail, said Master Fox, he would advise every Fox to cut it off, if he valued life and safety.

Who acts: uselessness, Master Fox, Fox · What happens: have, say, advise, cut off, value, proof · To what, where: tail, Fox, life, danger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox Without a Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uselessness, Master Fox, Fox), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 proof	case
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proof	amod
3	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 danger	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 danger	det
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proof	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 uselessness	cc
8	uselessness	uselessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 danger	conj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 having	mark
10	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 uselessness	acl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tail	det
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 having	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 proof	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Fox	compound
16	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 advise	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 advise	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 advise	aux
20	advise	advise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	parataxis
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 Fox	det
22	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 advise	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 cut	mark
24	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 advise	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cut	obj
26	off	off	ADP	_	24 cut	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 valued	punct
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 valued	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 valued	nsubj
30	valued	value	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cut	conj
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 valued	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 safety	cc
33	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 life	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	uselessness not said here	a tail		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Master Fox		with such proof of the danger and uselessness	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with proof=Manner
3	advise speech: other	would	Fox	every Fox		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient clause=Topic
4	cut off not said to happen	to-infinitive	every Fox not said here	tail		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality
5	value a condition, not said to happen	past	Fox	life and safety		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus
6	proof			the danger and uselessness		nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=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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