Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 99

The man replied that if the Horse would receive a bit in his mouth and agree to carry him, he would contrive effective weapons against the Stag.

Who acts: man, Horse · What happens: reply, receive, agree, carry, contrive · To what, where: bit, mouth, man, effective weapons

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 (man, Horse), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 receive	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 receive	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Horse	det
7	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 receive	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 receive	aux
9	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 receive	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 mouth	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 receive	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 agree	cc
16	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 receive	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 carry	mark
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 agree	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carry	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 contrive	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 contrive	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 contrive	aux
23	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	conj
24	effective	effective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 weapons	amod
25	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 contrive	obj
26	against	against	ADP	_	28 Stag	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Stag	det
28	Stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 contrive	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the man				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	receive a condition, not said to happen	would	the Horse	a bit	man's mouth		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bit=Theme in mouth=Location
3	agree speech: agree	infinitive	the Horse not said here				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Horse not said here	man			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	contrive	would	man	effective weapons		against the Stag	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Result

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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