The Aesop for Children, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, sentence 8

If you promise not to hurt me, I will lead that foolish creature yonder into a pit where he can't get out, and you can feast at your pleasure."

Who acts: you, I, Fox, your · What happens: promise, not hurt, lead, not get out, feast, please · To what, where: me, foolish creature, pit, pleasure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass, the Fox, 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 (you, I, Fox, your), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 promise	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 promise	nsubj
3	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lead	advcl
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hurt	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hurt	mark
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promise	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hurt	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 lead	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lead	aux
11	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 creature	mark
13	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 creature	amod
14	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lead	obj
15	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	18 pit	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 pit	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pit	det
18	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 creature	nmod
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 get	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 get	nsubj
21	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 get	advmod
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 pit	acl:relcl
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 get	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 feast	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 feast	cc
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 feast	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 feast	aux
29	feast	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lead	parataxis
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 pleasure	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pleasure	nmod:poss
32	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 feast	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lead	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not hurt not said to happen	to-infinitive		me			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient
3	lead	future	I	foolish creature	a pit		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent creature=Theme into pit=Destination
4	not get out	can	Fox			out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	feast	can	you		your pleasure		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	please		your				nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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