Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 103

The Goat replied, “Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak though I be silent.”

Who acts: Goat, you, horn · What happens: reply, fellow, speak, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goat, you, horn), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Goat	det
2	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct
6	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 speak	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fellow	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 fellow	nsubj
9	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fellow	amod
10	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speak	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fellow	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horn	det
13	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speak	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 speak	aux
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	ccomp
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 silent	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 silent	nsubj
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 silent	cop
19	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 speak	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Goat		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fellow in a quote		you		tree rules
3	speak speech: other in a quote	future	the horn		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	infinitive	the Goat = goat	silent property	tree rules

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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