Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 15
An old sly Fox, seeing this, said, “May I never make myself so ridiculous as you do in your pride and self-conceit; for even though you have the size of a lion among wolves, in a herd of lions you are definitely a wolf.”
Who acts: old sly Fox, you, your · What happens: see, say, not make, do, have, be · To what, where: this, old sly Fox, pride, size, wolf · 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 (old sly Fox, you, your), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Fox | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Fox | amod |
| 3 | sly | sly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Fox | amod |
| 4 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seeing | punct |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Fox | acl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 seeing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Fox | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 12 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 make | advmod |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 ridiculous | advmod |
| 18 | ridiculous | ridiculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 make | xcomp |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ridiculous | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 pride | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pride | nmod:poss |
| 24 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 conceit | cc |
| 26 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 conceit | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 self | punct |
| 28 | conceit | conceit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pride | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 have | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 have | mark |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 34 have | advmod |
| 32 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 34 have | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 have | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 size | det |
| 36 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 have | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 lion | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 lion | det |
| 39 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 size | nmod |
| 40 | among | among | ADP | _ | 41 wolves | case |
| 41 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 lion | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 herd | punct |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 herd | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 herd | det |
| 45 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 have | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 lions | case |
| 47 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 herd | nmod |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 52 wolf | nsubj |
| 49 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 wolf | cop |
| 50 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 52 wolf | advmod |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 wolf | det |
| 52 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 lions | acl:relcl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | a old sly Fox not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a old sly Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not make in a quote | may | a old sly Fox = fox | a old sly Fox = fox | ridiculous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Product | |||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | you | your pride and self conceit | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | you | the size of a lion among wolves | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | you | a wolf | definitely property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | pride in a quote | your | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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