Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 51

The Lions made this reply: “Your words, O Hares! are good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have.”

Who acts: Lions, words, Hares, we, Your · What happens: make, be, lack, have, word · To what, where: reply, claws · 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 (Lions, words, Hares, we), 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 Lions	det
2	Lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 reply	det
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 good	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 good	punct
8	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 words	nmod:poss
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 good	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Hares	punct
11	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	12 Hares	case
12	Hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 words	conj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 words	punct
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 good	cop
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	parataxis
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 lack	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 lack	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lack	nsubj
19	lack	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
20	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	21 claws	det
21	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lack	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 teeth	cc
23	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 claws	conj
24	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 claws	amod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 have	mark
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lack	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Lions	this reply		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	Your words and Hares		good property	tree rules
3	lack in a quote	present	Hares = hare	both claws and teeth		tree rules
4	have in a quote	present	we			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	word in a quote		Your			nom word «communication 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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