The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Lion, sentence 5
"See," said the man, "that's how strong _we_ are!
Who acts: man, that · What happens: see, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, that), 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 | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 strong | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 strong | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 strong | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 strong | cop |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 strong | advmod |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 strong | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 strong | nsubj |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 strong | punct |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 strong | cop |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | strong 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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