Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 28

I prefer my bare plowlands and roots from the hedgerow, where I can live in safety, and without fear.”

Who acts: I · What happens: prefer, live · To what, where: bare plowlands, hedgerow, safety

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 prefer	nsubj
2	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 plowlands	nmod:poss
4	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plowlands	amod
5	plowlands	plowland	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prefer	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 roots	cc
7	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plowlands	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 hedgerow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hedgerow	det
10	hedgerow	hedgerow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prefer	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 live	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 live	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 live	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 live	aux
15	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 prefer	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 safety	case
17	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 live	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fear	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fear	cc
20	without	without	ADP	_	21 fear	case
21	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 live	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 prefer	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 prefer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prefer	present	I	my bare plowlands and roots		the hedgerow			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plowland=Stimulus
2	live	can	I			safety		without fear	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in safety=Location

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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