Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 73
The Earthen Pot said to the Brass Pot, “Pray keep at a distance and do not come near me, for if you touch me ever so slightly, I shall be broken in pieces, and besides, I by no means wish to come near you.”
Who acts: Earthen Pot, Pray, Brass Pot · What happens: say, keep, not come, touch, break, mean · To what, where: Brass Pot, Earthen Pot, pieces, wish · 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 (Earthen Pot, Pray, Brass Pot), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pot | det |
| 2 | Earthen | Earthen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pot | compound |
| 3 | Pot | Pot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Pot | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pot | det |
| 7 | Brass | Brass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Pot | compound |
| 8 | Pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keep | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 keep | punct |
| 11 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | nsubj |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 distance | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 distance | det |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 come | cc |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 come | advmod |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 keep | conj |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 come | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 touch | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 touch | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 touch | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 touch | nsubj |
| 26 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | parataxis |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 touch | obj |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 touch | advmod |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 slightly | advmod |
| 30 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 26 touch | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 broken | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 broken | nsubj |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 broken | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 broken | aux:pass |
| 35 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 keep | parataxis |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 pieces | case |
| 37 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 broken | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 means | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 means | cc |
| 40 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 45 means | discourse |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 besides | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 means | nsubj |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 no | case |
| 44 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 42 I | obl |
| 45 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 46 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 means | obj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 come | mark |
| 48 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 wish | acl |
| 49 | near | near | ADP | _ | 50 you | case |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 come | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 means | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Earthen Pot | the Brass Pot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to pot=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | infinitive | Pray | at a distance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location | ||||
| 3 | not come in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Pray not said here | near the Earthen Pot = pot | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near i=Location | ||||
| 4 | touch a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the Brass Pot = pot | the Earthen Pot = pot | ever | slightly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme | ||
| 5 | break in a quote | shall · passive | the Earthen Pot = pot | pieces | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | mean in a quote | present | the Earthen Pot = pot | wish | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Topic | ||||
| 7 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | the Earthen Pot = pot not said here | wish not said here | near the Brass Pot = pot | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near you=Location |
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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