Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 91
“The next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you.”
Who acts: you, Stag, least · What happens: touch, grasp, be, not hurt · To what, where: Nettle, Stag, you
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 (you, Stag, least), 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 | _ | 10 grasp | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grasp | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 touch | nsubj |
| 6 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Nettle | det |
| 8 | Nettle | nettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touch | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 10 | grasp | grasp | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grasp | obj |
| 12 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 grasp | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 soft | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 soft | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 soft | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 soft | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 soft | cop |
| 18 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grasp | conj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 silk | case |
| 20 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soft | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 hand | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soft | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hurt | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hurt | cc |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 hurt | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 30 hurt | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 least | det |
| 29 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 hurt | nsubj |
| 30 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grasp | parataxis |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 hurt | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grasp | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 grasp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch in a quote | present | you | a Nettle | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nettle=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | grasp in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Stag | time | boldly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | Stag | as silk; to your hand; soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not hurt in a quote | past | the least | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient |
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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