Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 42
A Fox, seeing this, exclaimed, “Do not cultivate the favour of this man, but of your former owner, lest he should again hunt for you and deprive you a second time of your wings.”
Who acts: Fox · What happens: see, exclaim, not cultivate, hunt, deprive, favour · To what, where: this, favour, you, man · 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 (Fox), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Fox | acl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 seeing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cultivate | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cultivate | punct |
| 10 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 cultivate | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 cultivate | advmod |
| 12 | cultivate | cultivate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 favour | det |
| 14 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cultivate | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 favour | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 owner | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 owner | cc |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 owner | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 owner | nmod:poss |
| 22 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 owner | amod |
| 23 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cultivate | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hunt | punct |
| 25 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 29 hunt | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 hunt | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 hunt | aux |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 29 hunt | advmod |
| 29 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cultivate | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 hunt | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 deprive | cc |
| 33 | deprive | deprive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 hunt | conj |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 deprive | obj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 time | det |
| 36 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 time | amod |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 deprive | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 wings | case |
| 39 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 wings | nmod:poss |
| 40 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 time | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | a Fox not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | a Fox | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not cultivate in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the favour of this man | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Product | |||||
| 4 | hunt in a quote | should | Fox | again | for you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for you=Theme | |||
| 5 | deprive in a quote | infinitive | Fox not said here | you | time | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Source | |||
| 6 | favour in a quote | this man | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=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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