Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 34

“If,” said he, “you will place your forefeet upon the wall and bend your head, I will run up your back and escape, and will help you out afterwards.”

Who acts: Fox, you · What happens: say, place, bend, run up, escape, help out · To what, where: head, back, you · 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, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 said	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 If	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 If	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 place	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 place	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 place	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 place	aux
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 forefeet	nmod:poss
13	forefeet	forefoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 place	conj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 wall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wall	det
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 place	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bend	cc
18	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bend	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 run	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 run	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 run	aux
24	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bend	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 run	compound:prt
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 back	nmod:poss
27	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 run	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 escape	cc
29	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 run	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 help	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 help	cc
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 help	aux
33	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bend	conj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 help	obj
35	out	out	ADP	_	33 help	compound:prt
36	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	33 help	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Fox				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	place in a quote	future	you			upon the wall	tree rules
3	bend in a quote	infinitive	Fox not said here	your head			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
4	run up in a quote	future	Fox	your back			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=Trajectory
5	escape in a quote	infinitive	Fox not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	help out in a quote	future	Fox not said here		you	afterwards property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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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