Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 49
A Fox, seeing them, said, “If this lion were alive, you would soon find out that his claws were stronger than your teeth.”
Who acts: Fox, lion, you, claws · What happens: see, say, be, find out · To what, where: Dogs · 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 (Fox, lion, you, claws), 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 | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Fox | acl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seeing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 alive | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 alive | punct |
| 10 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 alive | mark |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 lion | det |
| 12 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 alive | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 alive | cop |
| 14 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 find | advmod |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 alive | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 find | compound:prt |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 stronger | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 claws | nmod:poss |
| 23 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stronger | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stronger | cop |
| 25 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 find | xcomp |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 teeth | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 28 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stronger | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | a Fox not said here | Dogs = dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | this lion | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find out in a quote | would | you | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | lion's claws | than your teeth; strong 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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