Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 133

A bystander said to him, “Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand.”

Who acts: bystander, Sheep · What happens: say, be, draw out · To what, where: Sheep, hand · 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 (bystander, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bystander	det
2	bystander	bystander	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 satisfied	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 satisfied	punct
8	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 satisfied	cop
9	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 quantity	case
11	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	13 quantity	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 quantity	det
13	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 satisfied	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 draw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 draw	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 draw	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 draw	aux
18	readily	readily	ADV	_	19 draw	advmod
19	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 draw	compound:prt
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hand	nmod:poss
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 draw	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 draw	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a bystander		Sheep		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	infinitive				with half quantity; satisfied property	tree rules
3	draw out in a quote	future	Sheep	your hand		readily property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

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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