Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 95

The Wolf was at once taken and flayed; whereon the Fox, turning to him, said with a smile, “You should have moved your master not to ill, but to good, will.”

Who acts: Fox · What happens: take, flay, turn, say, move · To what, where: Wolf, lion, 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 (Fox), 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 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 taken	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux:pass
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 taken	obl
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flayed	cc
8	flayed	flay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 taken	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 Fox	punct
10	whereon	whereon	ADV	PronType=Int	12 Fox	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Fox	det
12	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turning	punct
14	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 Fox	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turning	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	parataxis
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 smile	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 smile	det
21	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 moved	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 moved	punct
24	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 moved	nsubj:pass
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 moved	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 moved	aux
27	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 said	conj
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 master	nmod:poss
29	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 moved	obj
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 ill	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 ill	mark
32	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 moved	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 good	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 good	cc
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 good	case
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 taken	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 will	punct
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 good	aux
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		the Wolf		the Fox obl	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	flay	participle					tree rules
3	turn	gerund	the Fox not said here		lion		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
4	say speech: assert	past				with a smile	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with smile=Manner
5	move in a quote	should · perfect · passive		You			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme master=Result

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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