Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 112

A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, “You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so?”

Who acts: YOUNG FAWN, Mother · What happens: say, be, run, have, do, frighten · To what, where: Mother, horns, hounds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (YOUNG FAWN, Mother), 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	3 FAWN	det
2	YOUNG	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 FAWN	amod
3	FAWN	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Mother	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Mother	nmod:poss
8	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 larger	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 larger	punct
11	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 larger	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 larger	cop
13	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 Mother	amod
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 dog	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dog	det
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 larger	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 swifter	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 swifter	cc
19	swifter	swifter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dog	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 used	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 used	cc
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 used	amod
23	used	used	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
24	to	to	SCONJ	_	25 running	mark
25	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 used	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 have	cc
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 horns	nmod:poss
31	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	obj
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 defense	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 defense	det
34	defense	defense	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 why	punct
36	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 have	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Mother	punct
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 Mother	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Mother	punct
40	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	41 Mother	case
41	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 frighten	nsubj
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	43 do	punct
43	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 Mother	acl:relcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 hounds	det
45	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 do	obj
46	frighten	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 frighten	obj
48	so	so	ADV	_	46 frighten	advmod
49	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	a YOUNG FAWN		calf's Mother	once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	calf's Mother = mother			than a dog and swifter; large property	tree rules
3	run in a quote	gerund	a YOUNG FAWN not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have in a quote	present	calf's Mother = mother	your horns		as a defense	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
5	do in a quote	present	Mother not said here	the hounds			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hound=Eventuality
6	frighten in a quote	present	Mother	calf's Mother = mother			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

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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