Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 12

The Farmer laughed aloud and said, “It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company.”

Who acts: Farmer, you · What happens: laugh, say, know, take, die · To what, where: this, It · 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 (Farmer, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Farmer	det
2	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	3 laughed	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 taken	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 taken	punct
9	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 taken	nsubj:pass
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 taken	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 taken	aux:pass
12	all	all	ADV	_	24 taken	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 say	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 taken	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 know	advmod
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 taken	parataxis
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 know	obj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 taken	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 taken	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 taken	aux
24	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	ccomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 taken	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 robbers	case
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 robbers	det
28	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 taken	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Cranes	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Cranes	det
31	Cranes	Crane	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 robbers	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 die	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 die	cc
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 die	nsubj
35	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 die	aux
36	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 taken	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 company	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 company	nmod:poss
39	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 die	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the Farmer		aloud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Farmer not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	know in a quote	present	the Farmer = farmer	this		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
5	take in a quote	may · perfect · passive		It	with this robbers; all property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme you=Destination
6	die in a quote	must	you		in Cranes's company	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in company=Attribute

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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