Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 129

They replied, “We would willingly have helped you, if we had not known who you were, and with whom you were fighting.”

Who acts: Hare, We, you · What happens: reply, help, not know, be, fight · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, We, you), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 replied	nsubj
2	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 helped	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 helped	punct
5	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 helped	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 helped	aux
7	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	9 helped	advmod
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 helped	aux
9	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 replied	parataxis
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 helped	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 known	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 known	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 known	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 known	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 known	advmod
16	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 helped	conj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	16 known	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 who	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 who	cop
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 whom	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 whom	cc
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 whom	case
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 replied	advcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 fighting	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fighting	aux
26	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 whom	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 fighting	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 whom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Hare			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	help in a quote	would · perfect	We	you	willingly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
3	not know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	we			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a in a quote	past	you			tree rules
5	fight in a quote	past · progressive	you			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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