Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 4

As the Thief threw him the pieces of meat, the Dog said, “If you think to stop my mouth, you will be greatly mistaken.

Who acts: Thief, Dog, you · What happens: throw, say, think, stop, be · To what, where: pieces, him, mouth · 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 (Thief, Dog, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg21:952): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 threw	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Thief	det
3	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pieces	det
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 meat	case
9	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pieces	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Dog	det
12	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mistaken	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 mistaken	punct
16	If	if	SCONJ	_	18 think	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 think	nsubj
18	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 mistaken	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 stop	mark
20	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 think	xcomp
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mouth	nmod:poss
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stop	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 mistaken	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 mistaken	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 mistaken	cop
27	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	28 mistaken	advmod
28	mistaken	mistake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the Thief	the pieces of meat	him = he		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination piece=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Dog				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	stop in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	my mouth			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality mouth=Eventuality
5	is in a quote	future	you			greatly, mistake property	tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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