Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 68
The Horse replied, “If oats had been the food of wolves, you would never have indulged your ears at the cost of your belly.”
Who acts: Horse, you · What happens: reply, be, not indulge, cost · To what, where: food, ears, cost, belly · 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 (Horse, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Horse | det |
| 2 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 food | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 food | punct |
| 6 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 been | mark |
| 7 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 been | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 been | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 food | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 food | det |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wolves | case |
| 13 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 food | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 indulged | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 indulged | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 indulged | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 indulged | advmod |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 indulged | aux |
| 19 | indulged | indulge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 replied | conj |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ears | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 indulged | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 cost | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cost | det |
| 24 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 indulged | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 belly | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 belly | nmod:poss |
| 27 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cost | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Horse | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | participle | the food | of wolves | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not indulge in a quote | would · perfect | you | your ears | the cost of your belly | tree rules | |||
| 4 | cost in a quote | your belly | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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