Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 94

The Lion commanded him immediately to tell him the cure, when he replied, “You must flay a wolf alive and wrap his skin yet warm around you.”

Who acts: Lion, You · What happens: command, tell, reply, flay, wrap · To what, where: respect, cure, lion, wolf, skin · 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, 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 Lion	det
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 commanded	nsubj
3	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 commanded	obj
5	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	3 commanded	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 commanded	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cure	det
10	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 replied	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 replied	nsubj
14	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 commanded	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flay	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 flay	punct
17	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 flay	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 flay	aux
19	flay	flay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 replied	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wolf	det
21	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flay	obj
22	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 flay	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wrap	cc
24	wrap	wrap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 flay	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 skin	nmod:poss
26	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wrap	obj
27	yet	yet	ADV	_	28 warm	advmod
28	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wrap	xcomp
29	around	around	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 warm	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 commanded	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	command	past	the Lion	respect		immediately property	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Lion not said here	the cure	lion		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cure=Topic
3	reply speech: assert	past	lion				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	flay in a quote	must	You	a wolf		alive property	tree rules
5	wrap in a quote	infinitive	You not said here	lion's skin		warm property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

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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