Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 76

They make you also guard their sheep, and while they eat the mutton throw only the bones to you.

Who acts: collars, you · What happens: make, guard, eat, throw · To what, where: sheep, mutton, bones, you

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 (collars, 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 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 guard	nsubj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 guard	advmod
5	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	ccomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sheep	nmod:poss
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 guard	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 throw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 throw	cc
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 eat	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eat	nsubj
12	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 throw	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mutton	det
14	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eat	obj
15	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 bones	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bones	det
18	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 throw	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 throw	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	make	present	collars = collar			tree rules
2	guard	present	you		collars's sheep	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Beneficiary
3	eat	present	collars = collar	the mutton		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mutton=Patient
4	throw	present	collars = collar not said here	the bones	you	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bone=Theme to you=Destination

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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