Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 6

The Snake, slightly hissing, said: “There can henceforth be no peace between us; for whenever I see you I shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you see me you will be thinking of the death of your son.”

Who acts: Snake, you, son · What happens: hiss, say, be, see, remember, think · To what, where: peace, you, loss, Snake · 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 (Snake, you, son), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Snake	det
2	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hissing	punct
4	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	5 hissing	advmod
5	hissing	hiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Snake	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Snake	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 peace	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 be	punct
10	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 be	expl
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 be	aux
12	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	13 be	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 peace	cop
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 peace	det
15	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
16	between	between	ADP	_	17 us	case
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 peace	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 remember	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
20	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 see	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 remember	advcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 see	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 remember	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 remember	aux
26	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 loss	det
28	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 remember	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 tail	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tail	nmod:poss
31	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 loss	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 see	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 see	cc
34	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 see	advmod
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 see	nsubj
36	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 remember	advcl
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 see	obj
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 thinking	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 thinking	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 thinking	aux
41	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 see	ccomp
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 death	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 death	det
44	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 thinking	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 son	case
46	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 son	nmod:poss
47	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 death	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 remember	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hiss	gerund	the Snake not said here		slightly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Snake			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	infinitive		no peace	between us	tree rules
4	see in a quote	present	the Snake = snake	you	whenever property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	remember in a quote	shall	the Snake = snake	the loss of my tail		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent loss=Theme
6	see in a quote	present	you	the Snake = snake	whenever property	tree rules
7	think speech: other in a quote	future · progressive	you		of the death of your son	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	die in a quote		your son			nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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