Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 17

“Alas!” said the Horse, “if you really wish me to be in good condition, you should groom me less, and feed me more.”

Who acts: Horse, you · What happens: say, wish, be, groom, feed · To what, where: Horse, good condition, more · 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 (Horse, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Horse	det
7	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 groom	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 groom	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 wish	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 wish	nsubj
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 wish	advmod
13	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 groom	advcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 wish	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	19 condition	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 condition	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 condition	case
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 condition	amod
19	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wish	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wish	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 groom	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 groom	aux
23	groom	groom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 groom	obj
25	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 groom	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 feed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 feed	cc
28	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 groom	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 feed	obj
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 feed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Horse					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		the Horse = horse			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
3	is in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			good condition		tree rules
4	groom in a quote	should	you	the Horse = horse			less property	vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	feed in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	more	the Horse = horse			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient more=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.

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