Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 24
On learning what had happened, he said to him, “Ah, you will have to remain there, my friend, until you become such as you were when you crept in, and then you will easily get out.”
Who acts: Fox, Lion · What happens: learn, happen, say, have, remain, become · To what, where: Lion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, Lion), 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 learning | mark |
| 2 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | aux |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 learning | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 learning | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 13 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 17 have | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ah | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 become | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 remain | mark |
| 19 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 have | xcomp |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 remain | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 friend | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 friend | nmod:poss |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 become | punct |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 become | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 become | nsubj |
| 27 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 28 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 27 become | xcomp |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 crept | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 crept | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 crept | cop |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 crept | advmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 crept | nsubj |
| 34 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 such | advcl |
| 35 | in | in | ADV | _ | 34 crept | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 get | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 get | cc |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 get | advmod |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 get | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 get | aux |
| 41 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 42 get | advmod |
| 42 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 become | conj |
| 43 | out | out | ADV | _ | 42 get | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | gerund | Fox not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Fox | Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | future | Lion | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | remain in a quote | to-infinitive | Lion not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | become in a quote | present | such property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | past | Lion | creep property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | get out in a quote | future | Lion | then | easily, out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=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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