Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 62

As he passed the door of a cottage built in the forest, he heard a Mother say to her child, “Be quiet, or I will throw you out of the window, and the Wolf shall eat you.”

Who acts: Wolf, Mother, Thrush · What happens: pass, build, hear, say, be, throw · To what, where: door, cottage, child, you, window · 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 (Wolf, Mother, Thrush), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 passed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cottage	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cottage	det
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	nmod
9	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cottage	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Mother	det
17	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 heard	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 child	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 child	nmod:poss
21	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 quiet	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 quiet	punct
24	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 quiet	cop
25	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 heard	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 throw	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 throw	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 throw	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 throw	aux
30	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 quiet	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 throw	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 window	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 window	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 window	det
35	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 throw	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 eat	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 eat	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Wolf	det
39	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eat	nsubj
40	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 eat	aux
41	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 heard	parataxis
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 eat	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 eat	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	41 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Wolf	the door of a cottage				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Trajectory
2	build	participle		a cottage not said here			in the forest	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in forest=Attribute
3	hear	past	Wolf					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	a Mother		lamb's child			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient
5	is in a quote	infinitive					quiet property	tree rules
6	throw in a quote	future	the Thrush = thrush	you		the window		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme out window=Destination
7	eat in a quote	shall	the Wolf	you				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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