The Aesop for Children, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, sentence 9

As for you, you can use your legs so well that I should have little chance of collecting the debt if I had to catch you for it!"

Who acts: you, I, little chance · What happens: use, have, collect, catch · To what, where: legs, little chance, debt, you

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, little chance), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 you	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 use	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 you	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 use	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 use	aux
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 use	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 well	advmod
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 use	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 have	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 use	parataxis
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 chance	amod
17	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 collecting	mark
19	collecting	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 chance	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 debt	det
21	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 collecting	obj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 have	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 catch	mark
26	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	xcomp
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 catch	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 catch	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	can	you	your legs	well property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	have	should	I	little chance		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
3	collect	gerund	little chance not said here	the debt		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Theme
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I			tree rules
5	catch	to-infinitive	I not said here	you	for debt	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Theme for it=Beneficiary

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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