The Aesop for Children, Two Travelers and a Bear, sentence 9

"He said," answered the other, "that it was not at all wise to keep company with a fellow who would desert his friend in a moment of danger."

Who acts: Bear, fellow · What happens: say, answer, be, keep, desert · To what, where: other, company, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Two Travelers and a Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear, fellow), 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	_	3 said	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 other	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wise	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 wise	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 wise	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wise	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wise	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 all	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 wise	det
17	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 answered	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 keep	mark
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wise	csubj
20	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 keep	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 fellow	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fellow	det
23	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 keep	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 desert	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 desert	aux
26	desert	desert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 fellow	acl:relcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 friend	nmod:poss
28	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 desert	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 moment	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 moment	det
31	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 desert	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 danger	case
33	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 moment	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Bear				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	past		the other			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality
3	is in a quote	past				wise property	tree rules
4	keep in a quote	to-infinitive		company		with a fellow	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme
5	desert in a quote	would	a fellow	Bear's friend	moment		vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme friend=Source

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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