Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 113

The Fox replied, “You have chosen a most appropriate subject for your falsehoods, as I am sure none of your ancestors will be able to contradict you.”

Who acts: Fox, You, none · What happens: reply, choose, be, contradict · To what, where: appropriate subject, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, You, none), 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 Fox	det
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chosen	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 chosen	punct
6	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 chosen	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 chosen	aux
8	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 replied	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 subject	det
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 appropriate	advmod
11	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 subject	amod
12	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chosen	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 falsehoods	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 falsehoods	nmod:poss
15	falsehoods	falsehood	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 subject	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 able	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 sure	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 sure	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sure	cop
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 able	advcl
21	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	27 able	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 ancestors	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ancestors	nmod:poss
24	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 none	nmod
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 able	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	cop
27	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chosen	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 contradict	mark
29	contradict	contradict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	xcomp
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 contradict	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Fox			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	choose in a quote	present · perfect	You	a appropriate subject	for your falsehoods	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for falsehood=Beneficiary
3	is in a quote	present	the Fox = fox		sure property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	future	none		able property	tree rules
5	contradict in a quote	to-infinitive	none not said here	you		tree rules

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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