Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 68

They then said in derision: “If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.”

Who acts: Ants, you · What happens: say, be, sing, dance · To what, where: derision · 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 (Ants, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 derision	case
5	derision	derision	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 foolish	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 foolish	punct
8	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 foolish	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 foolish	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 foolish	cop
11	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj
12	enough	enough	ADV	_	11 foolish	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sing	mark
14	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 foolish	advcl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 summer	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 summer	det
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sing	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dance	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 dance	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 dance	aux
21	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 foolish	parataxis
22	supperless	supperless	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	24 bed	case
23	to	to	ADP	_	22 supperless	fixed
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dance	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 winter	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 winter	det
27	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dance	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ants = ant	derision	then		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in derision=Manner
2	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you			enough, foolish property	tree rules
3	sing speech: express in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		summer		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dance in a quote	must	you		winter	supperless bed	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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