Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 70

A HARE one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: “Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race.”

Who acts: HARE, Tortoise, you, Ants · What happens: ridicule, reply, laugh, be, beat · To what, where: short feet, you · 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 (HARE, Tortoise, you, Ants), 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	2 HARE	det
2	HARE	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ridiculed	nsubj
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ridiculed	obl:unmarked
5	ridiculed	ridicule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 feet	det
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feet	amod
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ridiculed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pace	cc
10	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pace	amod
11	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feet	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Tortoise	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Tortoise	det
14	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 pace	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 replied	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 replied	nsubj
17	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Tortoise	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laughing	punct
19	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 replied	ccomp
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 swift	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 swift	punct
22	Though	though	SCONJ	_	25 swift	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 swift	nsubj
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 swift	cop
25	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 laughing	parataxis
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 wind	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wind	det
28	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 swift	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 beat	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 beat	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 beat	aux
32	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 swift	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 beat	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 race	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 race	det
36	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 beat	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ridiculed	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ridiculed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ridicule	past	a HARE	the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise	day		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	the Tortoise				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	laugh	gerund					tree rules
4	is in a quote	infinitive	you			as the wind; swift property	tree rules
5	beat in a quote	future	Ants = ant	you		in a race	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Patient in race=Topic

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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