Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 64

In the evening he heard the same woman fondling her child and saying: “You are quiet now, and if the Wolf should come, we will kill him.”

Who acts: Wolf, same woman, You, we · What happens: hear, fondle, say, be, come, kill · To what, where: same woman, child, Wolf · 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, same woman, You, we), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
9	fondling	fondle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 woman	acl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 child	nmod:poss
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fondling	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saying	cc
13	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 fondling	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 quiet	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 quiet	punct
16	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 quiet	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 quiet	cop
18	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heard	parataxis
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 quiet	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 come	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Wolf	det
24	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 come	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heard	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 kill	punct
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 kill	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 kill	aux
30	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 come	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 kill	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Wolf	the same woman	evening		tree rules
2	fondle	gerund	the same woman not said here	woman's child			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the same woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	You		now	quiet property	tree rules
5	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should	the Wolf				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	kill in a quote	future	we	Wolf			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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