Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 32
When each had fully stated his case the Ape announced this sentence: “I do not think you, Wolf, ever lost what you claim; and I do believe you, Fox, to have stolen what you so stoutly deny.”
Who acts: Ape, you · What happens: state, announce, not think, lose, claim, believe · To what, where: each, sentence, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ape, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 stated | advmod |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 stated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stated | aux |
| 4 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 5 stated | advmod |
| 5 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 announced | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 case | nmod:poss |
| 7 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stated | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Ape | det |
| 9 | Ape | Ape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 announced | nsubj |
| 10 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 sentence | det |
| 12 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 announced | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 think | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 think | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 think | advmod |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 announced | parataxis |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 think | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Wolf | punct |
| 21 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 think | vocative |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lost | punct |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 lost | advmod |
| 24 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 think | conj |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 claim | obj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 claim | nsubj |
| 27 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 lost | advcl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 believe | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 believe | cc |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 believe | nsubj |
| 31 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 believe | aux |
| 32 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 announced | parataxis |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 believe | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Fox | punct |
| 35 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 believe | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 stolen | punct |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 stolen | mark |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 stolen | aux |
| 39 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 deny | advcl |
| 40 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 stolen | obj |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 stolen | obl |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 stoutly | advmod |
| 43 | stoutly | stoutly | ADV | _ | 39 stolen | advmod |
| 44 | deny | deny | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 32 believe | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 believe | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | past · perfect · passive | each | fully property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | announce speech: other | past | the Ape | this sentence | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | the Ape = ape | you | Wolf vocative | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | |||
| 4 | lose in a quote | participle | the Ape = ape not said here | ever | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | claim speech: other in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 6 | believe in a quote | present · do-support | the Ape = ape | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | steal in a quote | to-infinitive · perfect | you | stoutly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | ||||
| 8 | deny in a quote | infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=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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