Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 100

They always bark whenever we approach you and attack us before we have done any harm.

Who acts: sheep, we · What happens: bark, approach, attack, do · To what, where: you, us, harm

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep, we), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bark	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 bark	advmod
3	bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 bark	advmod
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 approach	nsubj
6	approach	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 whenever	advcl:relcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 approach	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 attack	cc
9	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 approach	conj
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 attack	obj
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 done	mark
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 attack	advcl
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 harm	det
16	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 done	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bark	present	sheep		always, whenever property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	approach	present	we	you		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	attack	infinitive	we not said here	us		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
4	do	present · perfect	we	any harm		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality

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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