The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Goat, sentence 7
"No," said the Goat, "that broken horn can speak for itself!"
Who acts: Goat, broken horn · What happens: say, break, speak · 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, broken horn), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | 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 Goat | det |
| 7 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 speak | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 speak | punct |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 horn | det |
| 11 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 horn | amod |
| 12 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 speak | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 speak | aux |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 itself | case |
| 16 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 speak | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 speak | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the Goat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | break in a quote | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | can | that broken horn | for horn | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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