Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 132

On which the Lamb replied, “It would be better for me to be sacrificed in the Temple than to be eaten by you.”

Who acts: Lamb, Priest, you · What happens: reply, be, sacrifice, eat · To what, where: Lamb, Temple · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Lamb, Priest, 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 replied	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lamb	det
4	Lamb	Lamb	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 better	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 better	punct
8	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 better	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 better	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 better	cop
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 replied	parataxis
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 sacrificed	mark
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 sacrificed	nsubj:pass
14	to	to	PART	_	16 sacrificed	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 sacrificed	aux:pass
16	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 better	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 Temple	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Temple	det
19	Temple	Temple	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sacrificed	obl
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 eaten	mark
21	to	to	PART	_	23 eaten	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 eaten	aux:pass
23	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 sacrificed	advcl
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 eaten	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 better	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Lamb				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	would	Priest			good property	tree rules
3	sacrifice in a quote	to-infinitive · passive		the Lamb = lamb	the Temple		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
4	eat in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	you				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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