Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 147

If we Lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the Man placed under the paw of the Lion.”

Who acts: Lions, you, Man · What happens: know, erect, see, place · To what, where: statues, paw · 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 (Lions, you, Man), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 knew	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 Lions	nsubj
3	Lions	Lion	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 see	advcl
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 erect	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 erect	mark
7	erect	erect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	xcomp
8	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 erect	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Man	det
14	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 placed	nsubj
15	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 see	ccomp
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 paw	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 paw	det
18	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 placed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Lion	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Lion	det
21	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 paw	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	past	Lions			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	erect	to-infinitive	Lions not said here	statues		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Product
3	see	would	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	place	past	the Man		the paw of the Lion	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under paw=Destination

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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