Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 37

The Kite replied, “That I might attain your royal hand, there is nothing that I would not have promised, however much I knew that I must fail in the performance.”

Who acts: Kite, That, nothing · What happens: reply, attain, be, not promise, know, fail · To what, where: royal hand, Kite, performance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kite, That, nothing), 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 Kite	det
2	Kite	Kite	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 attain	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 attain	punct
6	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 attain	nsubj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 attain	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 attain	aux
9	attain	attain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	ccomp
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hand	nmod:poss
11	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hand	amod
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attain	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 is	expl
15	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 attain	advcl
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 is	nsubj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 promised	obj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 promised	nsubj:pass
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 promised	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 promised	advmod
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 promised	aux
22	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 nothing	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
24	however	however	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	27 knew	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 knew	nsubj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	parataxis
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 fail	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 fail	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fail	aux
31	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 knew	ccomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 performance	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 performance	det
34	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fail	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Kite			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	attain in a quote	might	That	your royal hand		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	be in a quote	present	nothing		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not promise speech: promise in a quote	would · perfect · passive		the Kite = kite		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal that=Theme
5	know in a quote	past	the Kite = kite			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	fail in a quote	must	the Kite = kite		the performance	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in performance=Eventuality

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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