The Aesop for Children, The Miser, sentence 14
Why, I never touched the gold.
Who acts: I · What happens: not touch · To what, where: gold
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miser. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 touched | advmod |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gold | det |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | past | I | the gold | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gold=Co-Theme |
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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