The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 13

In return you will get tidbits of every kind, chicken bones, choice bits of meat, sugar, cake, and much more beside, not to speak of kind words and caresses."

Who acts: you · What happens: get, not speak · To what, where: tidbits, return · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the House Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 return	case
2	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	tidbits	tidbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 kind	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 kind	det
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tidbits	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bones	punct
11	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bones	compound
12	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tidbits	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bits	punct
14	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bits	compound
15	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tidbits	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 meat	case
17	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bits	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sugar	punct
19	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 meat	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cake	punct
21	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 meat	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 more	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 more	cc
24	much	much	ADV	_	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 get	obj
26	beside	beside	ADP	_	30 speak	mark
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 speak	punct
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 speak	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 speak	mark
30	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 more	advcl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 words	case
32	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 words	amod
33	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 speak	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 caresses	cc
35	caresses	caress	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 words	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	future	you	tidbits of every kind and chicken bones and choice bits of meat and sugar and cake		return			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent tidbit=Beneficiary more=Theme
2	not speak speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here					of kind words and caresses	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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