The Aesop for Children, The Ass in the Lion's Skin, sentence 7
"If you had kept your mouth shut you might have frightened me, too.
What happens: keep, frighten · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass in the Lion's Skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 12 frightened | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 kept | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | aux |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 frightened | advcl |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obj |
| 8 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 frightened | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 frightened | aux |
| 12 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 frightened | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 too | punct |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 frightened | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect · passive | you | shut property | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme mouth=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | frighten in a quote | might · perfect · passive | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result |
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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