The Aesop for Children, The Boy and the Filberts, sentence 5

"My boy," said his mother, "be satisfied with half the nuts you have taken and you will easily get your hand out.

Who acts: boy, you · What happens: say, be, take, get out · To what, where: mother, nuts, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boy and the Filberts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 boy	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 boy	nmod:poss
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 boy	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 boy	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 satisfied	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 satisfied	punct
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 satisfied	cop
12	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 nuts	case
14	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	16 nuts	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nuts	det
16	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 satisfied	obl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 taken	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 taken	aux
19	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 nuts	acl:relcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 get	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 get	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
23	easily	easily	ADV	_	24 get	advmod
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
27	out	out	ADP	_	24 get	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My boy	Boy's mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
2	is in a quote	infinitive			with half nuts; satisfied property	tree rules
3	take in a quote	present · perfect	you	half nuts not said here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme
4	get out in a quote	future	you	your hand	easily property	tree rules

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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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