The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion and the Fox, sentence 9

Pray tell me, how do your visitors find their way out again?"

Who acts: you, visitors · What happens: pray, tell, find out · To what, where: me, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, visitors), 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	Pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	reparandum
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 visitors	nmod:poss
8	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 find	nsubj
9	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 way	nmod:poss
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
12	out	out	ADV	_	9 find	advmod
13	again	again	ADV	_	9 find	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	pray	infinitive						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	find out	present · do-support	your visitors	visitors's way		again	out property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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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