Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 128

He catches you only for your wool, or your milk, but he lays hold on me for my very life.”

Who acts: Sheep · What happens: catch, lay, hold · To what, where: you

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 (Sheep), 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 catches	nsubj
2	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 catches	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 wool	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 wool	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wool	nmod:poss
7	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catches	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 milk	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 milk	cc
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 milk	nmod:poss
11	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catches	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lays	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 lays	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lays	nsubj
15	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 catches	conj
16	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lays	xcomp
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hold	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 life	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 life	advmod
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hold	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 catches	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 catches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	present	Sheep	you	for your wool	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Theme for wool=Beneficiary
2	lay	present	Sheep			tree rules
3	hold	infinitive	Sheep not said here		on me; for my life	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on i=Location

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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