Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 120

He replied, “I do it advisedly; for it would never do to have to sharpen my weapons just at the time I ought to be using them.”

Who acts: Boar · What happens: reply, have, sharpen, use · To what, where: weapons · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Boar), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 replied	nsubj
2	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj
8	advisedly	advisedly	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 do	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 do	advmod
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
15	to	to	PART	_	16 have	mark
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 replied	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sharpen	mark
18	sharpen	sharpen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 have	xcomp
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 weapons	nmod:poss
20	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sharpen	obj
21	just	just	ADV	_	24 time	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 using	obl:unmarked
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ought	nsubj
26	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 using	aux
27	to	to	PART	_	29 using	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 using	aux
29	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 sharpen	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 using	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Boar			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present · do-support				tree rules
3	sharpen in a quote	to-infinitive		my weapons		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent weapon=Patient
4	use in a quote	ought · progressive		weapons = weapon	time	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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