The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd and the Lion, sentence 9

Now I promise you a full-grown Bull, if you but make the thief go away!"

Who acts: I, thief · What happens: promise, grow, make, go away · To what, where: grown Bull, you, thief

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thief), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 promise	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 promise	nsubj
3	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 promise	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Bull	det
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grown	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct
8	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Bull	amod
9	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promise	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 you	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 you	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 promise	ccomp
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 make	cc
14	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 promise	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thief	det
16	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 make	xcomp
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	I	a grown Bull	you	now		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal bull=Theme
2	grow	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	present	I not said here	the thief				tree rules
4	go away	infinitive	the thief not said here				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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