The Aesop for Children, The Stag and His Reflection, sentence 6

Then the Stag perceived that the legs of which he was so ashamed would have saved him had it not been for the useless ornaments on his head.

Who acts: Stag, legs · What happens: perceive, be, save, have, not be · To what, where: Stag, panther, head

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag and His Reflection. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stag, legs), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 perceived	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Stag	det
3	Stag	Stag	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	nsubj
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 legs	det
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 had	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 ashamed	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ashamed	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ashamed	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 ashamed	advmod
13	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 legs	acl:relcl
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 saved	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 saved	aux
16	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 ashamed	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saved	obj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perceived	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	obj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 ornaments	advmod
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 ornaments	cop
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 ornaments	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ornaments	det
24	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ornaments	amod
25	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 had	obl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ornaments	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	the Stag			then		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is	past	Stag				of the legs; ashamed property	tree rules
3	save	would · perfect	Stag not said here	Stag				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	have	past	the legs	panther				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	not is	participle			Stag's head		for the useless ornaments	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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