Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 86

He assembled a good many Foxes and publicly advised them to cut off their tails, saying that they would not only look much better without them, but that they would get rid of the weight of the brush, which was a very great inconvenience.

Who acts: Fox, shame, brush · What happens: assemble, advise, cut off, say, not look, get · To what, where: good many Foxes, shame, tails, great inconvenience · 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, shame, brush), 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 assembled	nsubj
2	assembled	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Foxes	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Foxes	amod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Foxes	amod
6	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 assembled	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 advised	cc
8	publicly	publicly	ADV	_	9 advised	advmod
9	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 assembled	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 advised	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 cut	mark
12	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 advised	xcomp
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 cut	compound:prt
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tails	nmod:poss
15	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cut	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saying	punct
17	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 cut	advcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 look	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 look	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 look	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 look	advmod
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 look	advmod
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 saying	ccomp
24	much	much	ADV	_	25 better	advmod
25	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 look	xcomp
26	without	without	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 look	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 get	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 get	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 get	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 get	aux
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 assembled	advcl
34	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 get	xcomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 weight	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 weight	det
37	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rid	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 brush	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 brush	det
40	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 weight	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 inconvenience	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 inconvenience	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 inconvenience	cop
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 inconvenience	det
45	very	very	ADV	_	46 great	advmod
46	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 inconvenience	amod
47	inconvenience	inconvenience	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 brush	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 assembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	assemble	past	Fox	a good many Foxes		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fox=Theme
2	advise speech: other	past	Fox not said here	shame	publicly property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	cut off not said to happen	to-infinitive	shame not said here	shame's tails		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tail=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	gerund	shame not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not look	would	shame		without friends = friend; good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	get	would	shame		rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	past	the brush and a great inconvenience	a great inconvenience		tree rules

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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