Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 98
“WHY SHOULD there always be this fear and slaughter between us?” said the Wolves to the Sheep.
Who acts: fear, slaughter · What happens: be, say · To what, where: slaughter, Wolves, Sheep · 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 (fear, slaughter), 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 slaughter | punct |
| 2 | WHY | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 be | advmod |
| 3 | SHOULD | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 be | expl |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 be | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 slaughter | cop |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 fear | det |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slaughter | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 slaughter | cc |
| 10 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 slaughter | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 slaughter | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 slaughter | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Wolves | det |
| 17 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Sheep | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Sheep | det |
| 20 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | infinitive | this fear | slaughter | between us | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | slaughter | the Wolves | the Sheep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic to sheep=Recipient |
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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