Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 54

He felt it, and being in doubt, said: “I do not quite know whether it is the cub of a Fox, or the whelp of a Wolf, but this I know full well.

Who acts: lion, doubt, Whelp, this · What happens: feel, be, say, not know, know · To what, where: Whelp, doubt, cub · 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 (lion, doubt, Whelp, this), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 doubt	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 doubt	case
8	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 doubt	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 cub	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cub	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 cub	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cub	det
22	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 know	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Fox	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Fox	det
25	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cub	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 whelp	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 whelp	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 whelp	det
29	whelp	whelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cub	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Wolf	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 Wolf	det
32	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 whelp	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 know	cc
35	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 know	nsubj
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 know	nsubj
37	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	parataxis
38	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 know	ccomp
39	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 full	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	lion	Whelp			tree rules
2	is	gerund			doubt		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	doubt				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not know in a quote	present · do-support	doubt				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a in a quote	present	Whelp	the cub or the whelp of a Wolf		of a Fox	tree rules
6	know in a quote	present	this				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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