The Aesop for Children, The Two Goats, sentence 3

The narrow path would have made the bravest tremble.

What happens: make · To what, where: narrow path

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Goats. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 path	det
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 path	amod
3	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	aux
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tremble	det
8	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 tremble	amod
9	tremble	tremble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would · perfect · passive		the narrow path					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary tremble=Product

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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