Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 11

If I should do so, it would be as if I should beg every Dog in the town to bite me.”

Who acts: I, advice · What happens: do, be, bite · To what, where: town, me

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, advice), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 do	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 beg	advcl
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 do	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 beg	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 beg	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 beg	cop
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 beg	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 beg	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 beg	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 beg	aux
14	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 Dog	det
16	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beg	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 town	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 town	det
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beg	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bite	mark
21	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 beg	advcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 bite	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 beg	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	should	I				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	should	advice		the town	beg property	tree rules
3	bite	to-infinitive	advice not said here	me			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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