The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 4

"Let me remind your lordship," said the Dog, his words interrupted now and then as he dodged a snap of the Wolf's teeth, "how unpleasant it would be to eat me now.

Who acts: Dog, words, snap · What happens: let, remind, say, interrupt, dodge, be · To what, where: Dog, lordship, snap, teeth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lean Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog, words, snap), 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 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lordship	nmod:poss
6	lordship	lordship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remind	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Dog	det
11	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 interrupted	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 words	nmod:poss
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 interrupted	nsubj
15	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 interrupted	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dodged	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 dodged	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 dodged	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dodged	nsubj
21	dodged	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 interrupted	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 snap	det
23	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dodged	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 teeth	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Wolf	det
26	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 teeth	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Wolf	case
28	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 snap	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 unpleasant	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 unpleasant	punct
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 unpleasant	advmod
32	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dodged	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 eat	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 eat	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 eat	cop
36	to	to	PART	_	37 eat	mark
37	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 unpleasant	ccomp
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 eat	obj
39	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 eat	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		the Dog = dog			tree rules
2	remind speech: other in a quote	infinitive	the Dog = dog not said here	your lordship			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lordship=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	the Dog				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	interrupt	past	Dog's words		now		tree rules
5	dodge	past	Dog	a snap of the Wolf's teeth	then		tree rules
6	is in a quote	would	snap		now	eat property	tree rules
7	word		Dog				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	snap			the Wolf's teeth			nom snap «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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