Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 106
I have jaws well provided with teeth, and feet furnished with claws, and I lord it over all the beasts of the forest, and what a disgrace it is, that being such as I am, I should be frightened by the crowing of a cock.”
Who acts: I, disgrace, crowing, cock · What happens: have, provide, furnish, lord, be, frighten · To what, where: jaws, feet, foot, beasts, disgrace, I
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, disgrace, crowing, cock), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 provided | advmod |
| 5 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 jaws | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 teeth | case |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 provided | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 furnished | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 furnished | cc |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 furnished | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 have | parataxis |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 claws | case |
| 13 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 furnished | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lord | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lord | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 lord | nsubj |
| 17 | lord | lord | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 furnished | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lord | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 beasts | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 beasts | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beasts | det |
| 22 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lord | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 forest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forest | det |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 beasts | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 what | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 what | cc |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 have | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 disgrace | det |
| 30 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 what | nsubj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 is | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 disgrace | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 such | punct |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 such | mark |
| 35 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 such | cop |
| 36 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 44 frightened | mark |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 am | mark |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 am | nsubj |
| 39 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 frightened | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 am | punct |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 frightened | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 frightened | aux:pass |
| 44 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 have | advcl |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 crowing | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 crowing | det |
| 47 | crowing | crowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 frightened | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 cock | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 cock | det |
| 50 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 crowing | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | jaws | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient | ||||
| 2 | provide | participle | jaws not said here | with teeth; well property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tooth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | furnish | participle · passive | feet | with claws | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with claw=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lord | present | I | foot | all beasts of the forest | tree rules | |||
| 5 | be | present | disgrace | a disgrace not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot disgrace=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | gerund | such property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | frighten | should · passive | the crowing of a cock | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | crow | a cock | nom crowing «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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