Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 41

If we get rid of them, we shall fall into the hands of unskillful operators, and thus suffer a double death: for you may be assured, that though all the Butchers should perish, yet will men never want beef.”

Who acts: we, that, men · What happens: get, fall, suffer, assure, perish, not want · To what, where: hands, double death, you, beef

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 (we, that, men), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 get	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fall	advcl
4	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rid	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 fall	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fall	aux
10	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 hands	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hands	det
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fall	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 operators	case
15	unskillful	unskillful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 operators	amod
16	operators	operator	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hands	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 suffer	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 suffer	cc
19	thus	thus	ADV	_	20 suffer	advmod
20	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fall	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 death	det
22	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 death	amod
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 suffer	obj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 assured	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 assured	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 assured	nsubj:pass
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 assured	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 assured	aux:pass
29	assured	assure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 suffer	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 perish	punct
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 perish	nsubj:outer
32	though	though	ADV	_	37 perish	advmod
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 Butchers	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Butchers	det
35	Butchers	butcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 perish	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 perish	aux
37	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 assured	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 want	punct
39	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	43 want	cc
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 want	aux
41	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 want	nsubj
42	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 want	advmod
43	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fall	parataxis
44	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 want	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fall	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get a condition, not said to happen	present	we		rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	fall	shall	we		into the hands of unskillful operators result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result
3	suffer	infinitive	we not said here	a double death	thus property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus
4	assure	may · passive		you		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	perish	should	that		though property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	not want	future	men	beef		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot beef=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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