Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 1107

Come back and show us where we too can drink with safety." But he replied, "I'm afraid I can't yet: I want to go to the seaside, and this current will take me there nicely.

Who acts: you, we, Heifer, I, current · What happens: come back, show, drink, reply, be, want · To what, where: us, seaside, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, Heifer, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Come	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 show	cc
4	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 show	iobj
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	10 drink	advmod
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 drink	nsubj
8	too	too	ADV	_	10 drink	advmod
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 drink	aux
10	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 show	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 safety	case
12	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drink	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
15	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 replied	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 replied	nsubj
17	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 afraid	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 afraid	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 afraid	nsubj
21	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 afraid	cop
22	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 replied	ccomp
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 ca	nsubj
24	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 afraid	ccomp
25	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 ca	advmod
26	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 ca	advmod
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 want	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 want	nsubj
29	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 afraid	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 go	mark
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 want	xcomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 seaside	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 seaside	det
34	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 take	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 take	cc
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 current	det
38	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 take	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 take	aux
40	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 want	conj
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 take	obj
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 take	advmod
43	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	40 take	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come back	imperative	you not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show	infinitive	you not said here	us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
3	drink	can	we			with safety	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	reply speech: assert in a quote	past	Heifer				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	I			afraid property	tree rules
6	want	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		the seaside		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seaside=Initial_Location
8	take	future	this current	me	there	nicely property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination

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: «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). Annotation: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (mova-tales-silver-en.conllu), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence gutenberg:pg11339:1107.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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