The Aesop for Children, The Wild Boar and the Fox, sentence 7

"True enough," replied the Boar, "but when danger does come there will not be time for such work as this.

Who acts: danger, Boar · What happens: reply, come, not be · To what, where: time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wild Boar and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (danger, Boar), 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	_	2 True	punct
2	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 replied	parataxis
3	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 True	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 True	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 True	punct
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Boar	det
8	Boar	Boar	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 time	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 come	advmod
13	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Boar	parataxis
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 come	advmod
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 time	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 time	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 time	cop
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	ccomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 work	case
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 work	amod
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 time	nmod
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 this	case
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 work	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	present · do-support	danger		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is a in a quote	future	the Boar	time		for such work as this	tree rules

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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