Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 21

A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, “Oh! that you would eat the dead and not the living.”

Who acts: Fox hearing, Bear · What happens: say, eat · To what, where: Bear, dead · 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 (Fox hearing, Bear), 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	3 hearing	det
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hearing	compound
3	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 words	det
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 smile	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 smile	det
9	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Bear	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Bear	det
12	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct
15	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	20 eat	discourse
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 Oh	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 eat	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 eat	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 eat	aux
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dead	det
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 eat	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 living	cc
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 living	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 living	det
26	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dead	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	a Fox hearing		the Bear			with a smile	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bear=Recipient clause=Topic
2	eat in a quote	would	the Bear = bear	the dead and the living					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Patient

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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