Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 29
The other replied with greater caution, “But suppose the water should fail us.
Who acts: water · What happens: reply, suppose, fail · To what, where: us · 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 (water), 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 | 6 caution | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 caution | amod |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 caution | amod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 caution | case |
| 5 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 caution | amod |
| 6 | caution | caution | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 suppose | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 suppose | punct |
| 9 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 suppose | cc |
| 10 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 caution | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fail | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fail | aux |
| 14 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 suppose | ccomp |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fail | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caution | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | suppose in a quote | present | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fail in a quote | should | the water | us | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Eventuality |
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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