Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 52

The Thief laid hold of his coat and entreated him to stop, saying, “Pray wait, sir, and hold my clothes, or I shall tear them to pieces in my fury, when I turn into a wolf.”

Who acts: Thief, my · What happens: lay, entreat, stop, say, pray, hold · To what, where: hold, Innkeeper, wait, clothes, wolf, coat · 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 (Thief, my), 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 Thief	det
2	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 coat	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 coat	nmod:poss
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 entreated	cc
9	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 entreated	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 stop	mark
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 entreated	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
14	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 stop	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Pray	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 Pray	punct
17	Pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 saying	ccomp
18	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Pray	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sir	punct
20	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wait	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hold	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hold	cc
23	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 clothes	nmod:poss
25	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	23 hold	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tear	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 tear	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 tear	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tear	aux
30	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hold	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tear	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 pieces	case
33	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tear	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 fury	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 fury	nmod:poss
36	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pieces	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 turn	punct
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 turn	advmod
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 turn	nsubj
40	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 tear	conj
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 wolf	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 wolf	det
43	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 turn	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the Thief	hold of Innkeeper's coat				tree rules
2	entreat	past	the Thief not said here		Innkeeper			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	stop	to-infinitive	the Thief not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the Thief not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	pray in a quote	infinitive		wait and sir				tree rules
6	hold in a quote	infinitive		my clothes				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
7	tear in a quote	shall	the Thief = thief	clothes			to pieces in my fury result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to piece=Result
8	turn in a quote	present	the Thief = thief			a wolf		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into wolf=Trajectory
9	hold			Innkeeper's coat				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient
10	infuriate in a quote		my					nom fury «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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