Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 84

The Fox replied, “Indeed, I should have thanked you fervently if your deeds had been as good as your words, and if your hands had not been traitors to your speech.”

Who acts: Fox, deeds, hands, your · What happens: reply, thank, be, have, not be, word · To what, where: you, traitors · 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 (Fox, deeds, hands, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fox	det
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thanked	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 thanked	punct
6	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	11 thanked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Indeed	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 thanked	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 thanked	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 thanked	aux
11	thanked	thank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 replied	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 thanked	obj
13	fervently	fervently	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 good	mark
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 deeds	nmod:poss
16	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 good	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 good	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 good	cop
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thanked	parataxis
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 words	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 words	nmod:poss
23	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 good	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hands	nmod:poss
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	conj
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 traitors	advmod
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 traitors	cop
32	traitors	traitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 speech	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 speech	nmod:poss
35	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 traitors	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Fox				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	should · perfect	the Fox = fox		you	indeed property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	your deeds			as your words; fervently, good property	tree rules
4	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	your hands				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not is a in a quote	participle		traitors		to your speech	tree rules
6	word in a quote		your				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	speak in a quote		your				nom speech «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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