Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 74

One of them, turning about, said to him: “That is the very reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves.”

Who acts: That, we, thaw, reason, others · What happens: turn about, say, be, treat, have, come · To what, where: thaw, reason, us, Goats, ourselves · 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 (That, we, thaw, reason), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 said	ccomp
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turning	punct
5	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 said	ccomp
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 turning	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turning	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 reason	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 reason	punct
13	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 reason	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 reason	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 reason	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 reason	advmod
17	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	parataxis
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 cautious	advmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 cautious	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 cautious	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 cautious	advmod
22	cautious	cautious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 reason	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 treated	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 treated	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 treated	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 treated	nsubj
27	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 you	obl:unmarked
28	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 treated	obj
30	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 treated	advmod
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 Goats	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Goats	det
33	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 better	obl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
35	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 had	aux
36	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 Goats	acl:relcl
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 long	advmod
38	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 had	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 plain	punct
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 plain	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 plain	cop
42	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 prefer	advcl
43	also	also	ADV	_	42 plain	advmod
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 came	mark
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 came	mark
46	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 came	nsubj
47	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 would	advcl
48	after	after	ADP	_	49 us	case
49	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 came	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 came	punct
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 would	nsubj
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 prefer	aux
53	in	in	ADP	_	56 manner	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 manner	det
55	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 manner	amod
56	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 would	obl
57	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
58	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 prefer	obj
59	to	to	ADP	_	60 ourselves	case
60	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	57 prefer	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
62	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn about	gerund					about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past			thaw			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	That	the reason				tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	we				cautious property	tree rules
5	treat a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	thaw		us		well property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
6	have in a quote	present · perfect	thaw	the Goats not said here			long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Patient
7	is in a quote	present	reason				plain property	tree rules
8	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	others			after us		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	prefer in a quote	would		Goats = goat	ourselves			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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