The Aesop for Children, The Two Pots, sentence 9
If we should happen to meet anything hard I will step between and save you."
Who acts: we, I · What happens: happen, meet, step, save · To what, where: anything, you
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Pots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 happen | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 meet | mark |
| 6 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happen | xcomp |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 meet | obj |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 anything | amod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 step | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 step | aux |
| 11 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 anything | acl:relcl |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 step | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 save | cc |
| 14 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 step | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 save | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | should | we | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | we not said here | anything | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | step | future | I | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | save | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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