Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 114

I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can.”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: have, mention, hear, feel, faint, fly away · To what, where: advantages, bark

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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 advantages	det
4	advantages	advantage	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 mention	nsubj
6	mention	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 advantages	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 feel	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 feel	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 hear	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 hear	nsubj
11	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 feel	advcl
12	even	even	ADV	_	14 bark	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bark	det
14	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hear	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 dog	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dog	det
17	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dog	amod
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bark	nmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 feel	nsubj
20	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
21	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feel	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 faint	mark
23	faint	faint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ready	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fly	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fly	cc
26	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	parataxis
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 fly	advmod
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 fast	advmod
29	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 fly	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 can	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 can	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 fast	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	the advantages		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Patient
2	mention speech: other	present	you	the advantages not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent advantage=Topic
3	hear	present	I	the bark of a single dog		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bark=Stimulus
4	feel	present	I		ready property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	faint	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	fly away	infinitive			away, fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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