Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 83
Seeing he could not escape, he turned round, and said: “I know, friend Wolf, that I must be your prey, but before I die I would ask of you one favour you will play me a tune to which I may dance.”
Who acts: tree, one favour · What happens: see, not escape, turn round, say, know, be · To what, where: prey, tune, tree · 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 (tree, one favour), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 turned | advcl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 escape | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 escape | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 escape | advmod |
| 5 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Seeing | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 turned | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Wolf | punct |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Wolf | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 know | vocative |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 prey | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 prey | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 prey | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 prey | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 prey | cop |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 prey | nmod:poss |
| 26 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 know | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 die | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 die | cc |
| 29 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 31 die | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 die | nsubj |
| 31 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | parataxis |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 ask | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 ask | aux |
| 34 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 die | parataxis |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 you | case |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 ask | obl |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 favour | nummod |
| 38 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 play | nsubj |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 play | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 play | aux |
| 41 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 ask | ccomp |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 play | obj |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 tune | det |
| 44 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 play | obj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 which | case |
| 46 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 dance | obl |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 dance | nsubj |
| 48 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 dance | aux |
| 49 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 tune | acl:relcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | tree not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not escape | could | tree | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn round | past | tree | round property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | tree not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | tree | Wolf friend vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | must | tree | your prey | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | die in a quote | present | tree | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 8 | ask speech: ask in a quote | would | tree | of you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 9 | play in a quote | future | one favour | a tune | tree | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary tune=Theme | |||
| 10 | dance in a quote | may | tree | a tune | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to which=Trajectory |
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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