Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 6

He thus answered the Bee: “You shall have your request, but it will be at the peril of your own life.

Who acts: mortal, Bee, request, your · What happens: answer, have, be, request · To what, where: Bee, request, peril · 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 (mortal, Bee, request, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	3 answered	advmod
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bee	det
5	Bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	conj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 request	nmod:poss
12	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 peril	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 peril	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 peril	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 peril	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 peril	cop
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 peril	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 peril	det
20	peril	peril	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 life	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 life	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 life	amod
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 peril	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	mortal		the Bee		thus property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bee=Eventuality
2	have in a quote	shall	the Bee = bee	your request				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Patient
3	is in a quote	future	request			the peril	of your own life	tree rules
4	request in a quote		your					nom request «communication 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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