Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 25

When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.”

Who acts: Crane · What happens: extract, demand, promise, grin, grind, exclaim · To what, where: bone, promised payment, teeth, sufficient recompense, head, safety · 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 (Crane), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 extracted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Crane	det
3	Crane	Crane	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 extracted	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 extracted	aux
5	extracted	extract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 demanded	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bone	det
7	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 extracted	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 demanded	cc
9	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 exclaimed	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 payment	det
11	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 payment	amod
12	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 demanded	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Wolf	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Wolf	det
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 payment	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grinning	punct
17	grinning	grin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 demanded	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grinding	cc
19	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 grinning	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 teeth	nmod:poss
21	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grinding	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 exclaimed	punct
23	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 exclaimed	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 permitted	punct
26	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 have	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Why	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 permitted	aux
30	surely	surely	ADV	_	29 have	advmod
31	already	already	ADV	_	32 had	advmod
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 have	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 recompense	det
34	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 recompense	amod
35	recompense	recompense	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 permitted	punct
37	in	in	SCONJ	_	40 permitted	mark
38	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 permitted	aux
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 permitted	aux:pass
40	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 exclaimed	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 draw	mark
42	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 permitted	xcomp
43	out	out	ADP	_	42 draw	compound:prt
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 head	nmod:poss
45	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 draw	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 safety	case
47	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 draw	obl
48	from	from	ADP	_	50 mouth	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 mouth	det
50	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 draw	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 jaws	cc
52	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 mouth	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 wolf	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 wolf	det
55	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 jaws	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 exclaimed	punct
57	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	extract	past · perfect	the Crane	the bone			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
2	demand speech: request	past		the promised payment			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme payment=Precondition
3	promise speech: promise	participle					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	grin	gerund					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	grind	gerund		Grasshopper's teeth			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
6	exclaim speech: express	past					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	have in a quote	past		a sufficient recompense			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recompense=Patient
8	permit in a quote	present · perfect · passive					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
9	draw out not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		your head	safety	from the mouth and jaws of a wolf	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in safety=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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