The Aesop for Children, The Miser, sentence 17
"If that is the case," he said, "cover up that stone.
Who acts: that, stranger · What happens: be, say, cover up · To what, where: case, stone · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (that, stranger), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 case | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 case | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 case | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 case | det |
| 6 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 case | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 case | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cover | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cover | punct |
| 13 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 cover | compound:prt |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 stone | det |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cover | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | that | the case | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | stranger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cover up in a quote | infinitive | that stone | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stone=Destination |
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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