The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Leopard, sentence 6

"You may have a very smart coat," he said, "but you would be a great deal better off if you had a little more smartness inside your head and less on your ribs, the way I am.

Who acts: You, Leopard · What happens: have, say, be · To what, where: smart coat, great deal, more smartness, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Leopard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Leopard), 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	_	4 have	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coat	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 smart	advmod
7	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coat	amod
8	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 better	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 deal	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 deal	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 deal	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 deal	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 deal	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 deal	amod
21	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 better	nsubj
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 said	parataxis
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 better	compound:prt
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 better	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 little	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 more	obl:unmarked
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 smartness	amod
30	smartness	smartness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
31	inside	inside	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 smartness	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ribs	cc
35	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 ribs	advmod
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 ribs	case
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 ribs	nmod:poss
38	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 smartness	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 way	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 way	det
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 smartness	appos
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 am	nsubj
43	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 way	acl:relcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have in a quote	may	You	a smart coat		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Leopard			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	would	you	a great deal		tree rules
4	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you	more smartness and your ribs	your head	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smartness=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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