The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Ass, sentence 4
He would not honor the fool with even so much as a stroke of his claws.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: not honor, stroke · To what, where: fool, claws
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 honor | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 honor | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 honor | advmod |
| 4 | honor | honor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fool | det |
| 6 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 honor | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 much | case |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 honor | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 stroke | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stroke | det |
| 13 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 much | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 claws | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 claws | nmod:poss |
| 16 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stroke | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 honor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not honor | would | Lion | the fool | with much as a stroke of Lion's claws | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Theme | |||
| 2 | stroke | Lion's claws | nom stroke «act 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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