The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Goat, sentence 6
"Do not tell the master," he begged the Goat.
Who acts: Goat · What happens: not tell, beg · To what, where: master, Goat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goatherd and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goat), 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 master | det |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 begged | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 begged | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 begged | nsubj |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Goat | det |
| 12 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative · do-support | the Goat = goat not said here | the master | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Goat | the Goat | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent goat=Recipient |
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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