Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 86

“Yes,” said the Horse; “if any remains out of what I am now eating I will give it you for the sake of my own superior dignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in the evening, I will give you a little sack full of barley.”

Who acts: Horse, any, you · What happens: say, remain, eat, give, come, reach · To what, where: portion, you, own stall, little sack · 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 (Horse, any, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Horse	det
7	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 remains	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 remains	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 remains	mark
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 remains	nsubj
12	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	15 what	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 what	case
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 give	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 eating	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 eating	aux
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 eating	advmod
19	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 what	acl:relcl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 remains	ccomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	obj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 sake	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sake	det
27	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 dignity	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 dignity	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dignity	amod
31	superior	superior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dignity	amod
32	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sake	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 come	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 come	cc
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 come	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 come	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 come	aux
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 give	conj
39	when	when	SCONJ	_	41 reach	mark
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 reach	nsubj
41	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 come	advcl
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 stall	nmod:poss
43	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 stall	amod
44	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 reach	obj
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 evening	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 evening	det
47	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 reach	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 give	punct
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 give	nsubj
50	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 give	aux
51	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 give	conj
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 give	iobj
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 sack	det
54	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 sack	amod
55	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 give	obj
56	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 sack	amod
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 barley	case
58	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 full	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
60	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 remains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Horse					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	remain a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	any					tree rules
3	eat in a quote	present · progressive	the Horse = horse			now		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give in a quote	future	the Horse = horse	portion	you		for the sake of my own superior dignity	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Theme for sake=Asset
5	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	reach in a quote	present	the Horse = horse	my own stall		evening		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stall=Theme
7	give in a quote	future	the Horse = horse	a little sack	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sack=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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