The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 21
"Perhaps you see the mark of the collar to which my chain is fastened."
Who acts: you · What happens: see, fasten, mark · To what, where: mark, chain, collar
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 see | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mark | det |
| 6 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 collar | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 collar | det |
| 9 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mark | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fastened | obl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 chain | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fastened | aux:pass |
| 15 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 collar | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | you | the mark of the collar | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fasten in a quote | present · passive | my chain | to the collar | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to which=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | mark in a quote | the collar | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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