Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 129
“For,” he said, “if you will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat.”
Who acts: Wolf, you · What happens: say, bring, drink, find, mean, provide · To what, where: Wolf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, you), 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 | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 2 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 For | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 For | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | aux |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bring | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | aux |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 means | nsubj |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 provide | mark |
| 21 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 means | xcomp |
| 22 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 provide | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 meat | case |
| 24 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 provide | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | Wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drink in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | future | Wolf | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | mean in a quote | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | provide not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Wolf | with meat | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient with meat=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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