Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 91

The Sheep, much against his will, carried her backward and forward for a long time, and at last said, “If you had treated a dog in this way, you would have had your deserts from his sharp teeth.”

Who acts: Sheep, you · What happens: carry, say, treat, have · To what, where: viper, last, you, way, deserts, sharp teeth · 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 (Sheep, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sheep	det
2	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 will	punct
4	much	much	ADV	_	7 will	advmod
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 will	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 will	nmod:poss
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Sheep	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sheep	punct
9	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carried	obj
11	backward	backward	ADV	_	9 carried	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 forward	cc
13	forward	forward	ADV	_	11 backward	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 time	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 carried	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 treated	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 treated	punct
25	If	if	SCONJ	_	28 treated	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 treated	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 treated	aux
28	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 said	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dog	det
30	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 treated	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 way	case
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 way	det
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 treated	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 had	aux
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 had	aux
38	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 carried	parataxis
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 deserts	nmod:poss
40	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 had	obj
41	from	from	ADP	_	44 teeth	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 teeth	nmod:poss
43	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 teeth	amod
44	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 had	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the Sheep	viper		time	backward property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past			last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	treat a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect · passive		you	this way			tree rules
4	have in a quote	would · perfect	you	your deserts	dog's sharp teeth			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=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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