Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 13
“’Tis not the Mouse I fear,” said the Lion; “I resent his familiarity and ill-breeding.”
Who acts: Tis, Lion · What happens: fear, say, resent · To what, where: familiarity · 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 (Tis, Lion), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 3 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fear | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 Mouse | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mouse | det |
| 6 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tis | nmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fear | nsubj |
| 8 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fear | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fear | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lion | det |
| 13 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 resent | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 resent | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 resent | nsubj |
| 17 | resent | resent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 familiarity | nmod:poss |
| 19 | familiarity | familiarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 resent | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 breeding | cc |
| 21 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 breeding | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 ill | punct |
| 23 | breeding | breeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 familiarity | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear in a quote | present | Tis the Mouse | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | resent in a quote | present | the Lion = lion | Mouse's familiarity and ill breeding | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer familiarity=Stimulus |
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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