Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 38

If you had as many brains in your head as you have hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which you had no means of escape.”

Who acts: you · What happens: have, not go down, inspect up, expose, mean · To what, where: many brains, head, hairs, beard, way, yourself · 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 (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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	advcl
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brains	amod
6	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brains	nmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 have	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	advcl
13	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 beard	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 beard	nmod:poss
16	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hairs	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 gone	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 gone	advmod
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 gone	aux
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 means	csubj
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 gone	compound:prt
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 inspected	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 inspected	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 inspected	aux
27	inspected	inspect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 gone	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 way	det
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 inspected	obl:unmarked
30	up	up	ADV	_	27 inspected	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 exposed	punct
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	34 exposed	cc
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 exposed	aux
34	exposed	expose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 gone	conj
35	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 exposed	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 dangers	case
37	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 exposed	obl
38	from	from	ADP	_	39 which	case
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 had	obl
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 dangers	acl:relcl
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 had	obj
43	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 escape	case
45	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 means	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 means	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	43 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	you	many brains		your head		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
2	have	present	you	hairs		your beard		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	not go down	would · perfect	you					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	inspect up	past · perfect	you	the way				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	expose	present · perfect	you not said here	yourself	dangers			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme to danger=Recipient
6	have	past	you	no		dangers		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Patient
7	mean	present					of escape	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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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