Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 113

He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both.

Who acts: Lion, one condition, daughter · What happens: express, accept, allow, extract, cut off, be · To what, where: willingness, Lion, one condition, Master, teeth, claws

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 (Lion, one condition, daughter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 expressed	nsubj
2	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 willingness	nmod:poss
4	willingness	willingness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expressed	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 accept	mark
6	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 expressed	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lion	det
8	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 accept	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 suitor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 suitor	det
11	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accept	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 daughter	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 suitor	nmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 condition	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 condition	nummod
17	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accept	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 allow	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 allow	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 allow	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 allow	aux
22	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 condition	acl:relcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 allow	iobj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 extract	mark
25	extract	extract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 allow	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 teeth	nmod:poss
27	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 extract	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cut	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cut	cc
30	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 expressed	parataxis
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 cut	compound:prt
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 claws	nmod:poss
33	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cut	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 afraid	punct
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 afraid	mark
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 daughter	nmod:poss
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 afraid	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 afraid	cop
39	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	_	40 afraid	advmod
40	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cut	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 both	case
42	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	40 afraid	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 expressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	express	past	Lion	Lion's willingness				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent willingness=Theme
2	accept	to-infinitive	Lion not said here	the Lion		one condition	as the suitor of Lion's daughter	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lion=Theme as suitor=Attribute
3	allow	should	Lion	one condition not said here	Master			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	extract not said to happen	to-infinitive	one condition not said here	Lion's teeth				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
5	cut off	participle		Lion's claws				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector claw=Eventuality
6	is	past	Lion's daughter				of both; afraid, fearfully 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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