Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 136

The Fowler replied, “I shall now with less scruple take your life, because you are willing to save it at the cost of betraying your friends and relations.”

Who acts: Fowler, you, cost · What happens: reply, take, be, save, betray · To what, where: life, cost, friends · 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 (Fowler, you, cost), 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 Fowler	det
2	Fowler	fowler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 shall	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 shall	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 scruple	case
10	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 scruple	amod
11	scruple	scruple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obl
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	ccomp
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 willing	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 willing	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 willing	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 willing	cop
19	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 take	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 save	mark
21	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 willing	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 save	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 cost	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cost	det
25	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 save	obl
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 betraying	mark
27	betraying	betray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 cost	acl
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 friends	nmod:poss
29	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 betraying	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 relations	cc
31	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 friends	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Fowler				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	shall		your life		with less scruple	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	you			willing property	tree rules
4	save in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	life	the cost		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at cost=Asset
5	betray in a quote	gerund	the cost not said here	your friends and relations			tree rules

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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