Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 130

“Yes,” said the Sheep, “if I should bring you the draught, you would doubtless make me provide the meat also.”

Who acts: Sheep · What happens: say, bring, make, provide · To what, where: draught, you, Sheep, meat · 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 (Sheep), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sheep	det
7	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bring	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 bring	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 bring	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 bring	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bring	aux
13	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 bring	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 draught	det
16	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 doubtless	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 doubtless	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 doubtless	aux
20	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bring	parataxis
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 doubtless	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 make	obj
23	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 make	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 meat	det
25	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 provide	obj
26	also	also	ADV	_	23 provide	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 bring	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Sheep			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	should	the Sheep = sheep	the draught	you	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination draught=Theme
3	make in a quote	infinitive	the Sheep = sheep not said here	the Sheep = sheep		tree rules
4	provide in a quote	infinitive	the Sheep = sheep not said here	the meat		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition 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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