Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 137

The Sheep, fearing some fraud was intended, excused herself, saying, “The Wolf is accustomed to seize what he wants and to run off; and you, too, can quickly outstrip me in your rapid flight.

Who acts: Sheep, wolf, you · What happens: fear, intend, excuse, say, accustom, seize · To what, where: fraud, character, Wolf, Sheep · 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 (Sheep, wolf, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sheep	det
2	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 excused	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fearing	punct
4	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Sheep	acl
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 fraud	det
6	fraud	fraud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 intended	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 intended	aux:pass
8	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fearing	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sheep	punct
10	excused	excuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 excused	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saying	punct
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 excused	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 accustomed	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 accustomed	punct
16	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Wolf	det
17	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 accustomed	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 accustomed	aux:pass
19	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 saying	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 seize	mark
21	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 accustomed	advcl
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 wants	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wants	nsubj
24	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 seize	ccomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 run	cc
26	to	to	PART	_	27 run	mark
27	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wants	conj
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 run	compound:prt
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 outstrip	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 outstrip	cc
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 outstrip	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 you	punct
33	too	too	ADV	_	35 can	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 too	punct
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 outstrip	aux
36	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	37 outstrip	advmod
37	outstrip	outstrip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 excused	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 outstrip	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 flight	case
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 flight	nmod:poss
41	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 flight	amod
42	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 outstrip	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 excused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fear	gerund	the Sheep not said here			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	intend	past · passive		some fraud		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	excuse	past	the Sheep	character		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the Sheep not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	accustom in a quote	present · passive		the Wolf		tree rules
6	seize in a quote	to-infinitive				tree rules
7	want in a quote	present	wolf			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
8	run off in a quote	to-infinitive	wolf not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	outstrip in a quote	can	you	the Sheep = sheep	in your rapid flight; quickly property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot i=Theme in flight=Attribute

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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