The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Goat, sentence 10

"If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow," he said as he ran, "you would have been more cautious about finding a way to get out again before you jumped in."

Who acts: you, Goat · What happens: have, say, run, be, find, get out · To what, where: much sense, beard, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Goat), 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	_	18 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	advcl
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sense	amod
7	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 have	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	advcl
11	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fellow	punct
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fellow	amod
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beard	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 ran	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ran	nsubj
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cautious	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 cautious	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 cautious	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 cautious	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 cautious	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 cautious	cop
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 cautious	advmod
29	cautious	cautious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ran	parataxis
30	about	about	SCONJ	_	31 finding	mark
31	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 cautious	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 way	det
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 finding	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 get	mark
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 way	acl
36	out	out	ADV	_	35 get	advmod
37	again	again	ADV	_	35 get	advmod
38	before	before	SCONJ	_	40 jumped	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 jumped	nsubj
40	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 get	advcl
41	in	in	ADP	_	40 jumped	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you	much sense			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
2	have in a quote	present	you	beard and old fellow			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	Goat				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	run	past	Goat				tree rules
5	is in a quote	would · perfect	you			cautious property	tree rules
6	find in a quote	gerund	you not said here	a way			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
7	get out in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	a way not said here	again	out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	jump in in a quote	past	you				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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