Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 9
A friend, meeting him and learning what he wanted, said, “If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the Dog that bit you.”
Who acts: friend, Dog, your · What happens: meet, learn, want, say, cure, take · To what, where: friend, you, piece, Dog · 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 (friend, Dog, your), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 friend | det |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 meeting | punct |
| 4 | meeting | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 friend | acl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 meeting | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 learning | cc |
| 7 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 meeting | conj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 learning | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 friend | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 15 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 cured | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 cured | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 cured | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cured | aux:pass |
| 19 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 take | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cured | punct |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 piece | det |
| 23 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bread | case |
| 25 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 piece | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dip | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dip | cc |
| 28 | dip | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 take | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 dip | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 blood | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 blood | det |
| 32 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dip | obl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 wound | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wound | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dip | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 go | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 go | cc |
| 38 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 take | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 give | cc |
| 40 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 take | conj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 give | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 Dog | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Dog | det |
| 44 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 give | obl |
| 45 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 bit | nsubj |
| 46 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 Dog | acl:relcl |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 bit | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | gerund | a friend not said here | friend | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | learn | gerund | a friend not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want | past | friend | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | a friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | cure a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would · passive | you | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source | |||||
| 6 | take in a quote | infinitive | a piece of bread | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | |||||
| 7 | dip in a quote | infinitive | piece | from your wound; in the blood | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient it=Extent in blood=Attribute from wound=Initial_State | ||||
| 8 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | give in a quote | infinitive | piece | the Dog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to dog=Recipient | ||||
| 10 | bite in a quote | past | the Dog | you | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 11 | wound in a quote | your | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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