Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 28
On seeing this, his Dogs took counsel together, and said, “It is time for us to be off, for if the master spare not his oxen, who work for his gain, how can we expect him to spare us?”
Who acts: Dogs, counsel, master, oxen, we, storm · What happens: see, take, say, be, not spare, work · To what, where: this, counsel, time, oxen, storm, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dogs, counsel, master, oxen), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 seeing | mark |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 took | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 seeing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seeing | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Dogs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 took | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 15 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 time | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | cop |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 time | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 off | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 off | cop |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 us | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 spare | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 spare | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 spare | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 master | det |
| 27 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spare | nsubj |
| 28 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 spare | advmod |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 oxen | nmod:poss |
| 31 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 spare | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 work | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 work | nsubj |
| 34 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 oxen | acl:relcl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 gain | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 gain | nmod:poss |
| 37 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 work | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 expect | punct |
| 39 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 expect | advmod |
| 40 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 expect | aux |
| 41 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 expect | nsubj |
| 42 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 work | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 expect | obj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 spare | mark |
| 45 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 expect | xcomp |
| 46 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 spare | obj |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 spare | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 spare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | storm's Dogs not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | past | storm's Dogs | counsel | together property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | storm's Dogs not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | counsel | time | for us | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not spare a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | the master | storm's oxen | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent ox=Asset | ||||
| 6 | work in a quote | present | storm's oxen | for storm's gain | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for gain=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | expect in a quote | can | we | storm | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | spare not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | storm not said here | us | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent we=Asset |
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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