Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 106

They replied, “We are all very well, and shall continue so, if you will only be good enough to go away, and leave us as we are.”

Who acts: Cat, We, you · What happens: reply, be, continue, go away, leave · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cat, We, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 replied	nsubj
2	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 well	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 well	punct
5	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 well	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 well	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	9 well	advmod
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 well	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 replied	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 continue	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 continue	cc
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 continue	aux
13	continue	continue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 replied	parataxis
14	so	so	ADV	_	13 continue	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 good	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 good	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 good	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 good	aux
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 good	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 good	cop
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 continue	parataxis
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 good	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 good	advcl
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 leave	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 leave	cc
28	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	conj
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 leave	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 are	mark
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 are	nsubj
32	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 leave	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 continue	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Cat			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	We		all, well property	tree rules
3	continue in a quote	shall				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you		enough, good property	tree rules
5	go away in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	us		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
7	be in a quote	present	we			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/106/