Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 30
A very old Mouse, who had escaped many a trap and snare, observed from a safe distance the trick of his crafty foe and said, “Ah! you that lie there, may you prosper just in the same proportion as you are what you pretend to be!”
Who acts: old Mouse, you · What happens: escape, observe, say, lie, prosper, be · To what, where: many trap, same proportion, crafty foe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Mouse, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Mouse | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 old | advmod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Mouse | amod |
| 4 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 escaped | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 escaped | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 escaped | aux |
| 8 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 Mouse | acl:relcl |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trap | amod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 trap | det |
| 11 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 escaped | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 snare | cc |
| 13 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trap | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 observed | punct |
| 15 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 trap | acl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 distance | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 distance | det |
| 18 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 distance | amod |
| 19 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 observed | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trick | det |
| 21 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 distance | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 foe | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 foe | nmod:poss |
| 24 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 foe | amod |
| 25 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trick | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 escaped | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 prosper | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 prosper | punct |
| 30 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 34 lie | discourse |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 Ah | punct |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 lie | nsubj |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 lie | nsubj |
| 34 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 prosper | advcl |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 lie | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lie | punct |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 prosper | aux |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 prosper | nsubj |
| 39 | prosper | prosper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 said | ccomp |
| 40 | just | just | ADV | _ | 44 proportion | advmod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 proportion | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 proportion | det |
| 43 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 proportion | amod |
| 44 | proportion | proportion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 prosper | obl |
| 45 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 what | mark |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 what | nsubj |
| 47 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 what | cop |
| 48 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 prosper | ccomp |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 pretend | nsubj |
| 50 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 what | acl:relcl |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 be | mark |
| 52 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 pretend | xcomp |
| 53 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 39 prosper | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 prosper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past · perfect | a old Mouse | a many trap and snare | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trap=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | observe | participle | a many trap and snare not said here | from a safe distance the trick of Acquaintance's crafty foe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | a old Mouse not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lie in a quote | present | you | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | prosper in a quote | may | you | the same proportion | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in proportion=Location | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | pretend in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | be in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | trick | Acquaintance's crafty foe | nom trick «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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