Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 87

One of them interrupting him said, “If you had not yourself lost your tail, my friend, you would not thus counsel us.”

Who acts: interrupting, you, yourself · What happens: interrupt, say, not have, lose, not counsel · To what, where: Fox, tail, us · 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 (interrupting, you, yourself), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 said	ccomp
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 said	csubj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 interrupting	obj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lost	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 lost	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lost	advcl
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 had	advmod
13	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 lost	nsubj
14	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tail	nmod:poss
16	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lost	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 friend	punct
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 friend	nmod:poss
19	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tail	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 counsel	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 counsel	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 counsel	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 counsel	advmod
24	thus	thus	ADV	_	25 counsel	advmod
25	counsel	counsel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 counsel	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 counsel	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 counsel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	interrupt	gerund		Fox			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	interrupting				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	lose in a quote	past	yourself	your tail and my friend			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Eventuality
5	not counsel speech: other in a quote	would	you		us	thus property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient

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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