The Aesop for Children, The Dogs and the Fox, sentence 4

He would have made you feel how much sharper his claws are than your teeth."

Who acts: Lion, you, claws · What happens: make, feel, be · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs 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 (Lion, you, claws), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	aux
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sharper	advmod
9	sharper	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 teeth	amod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 claws	nmod:poss
11	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 teeth	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 teeth	cop
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 teeth	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 teeth	nmod:poss
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feel	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	would · perfect	Lion	you		tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	you not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	Lion's claws		than your sharper teeth	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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