The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 6

"You can be as well-fed as I am if you want to," replied the Dog. "

Who acts: Dog · What happens: feed, be, reply · To what, where: You · 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 (Dog), 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	_	8 fed	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 fed	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 fed	aux:pass
5	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	8 fed	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 as	fixed
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 as	punct
8	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 replied	ccomp
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 want	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 want	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 want	cop
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 want	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 want	nsubj
14	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fed	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	14 want	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fed	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 replied	punct
18	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Dog	det
20	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 replied	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 replied	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feed in a quote	can · passive		You		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	is in a quote	present	the Dog = dog		want property	tree rules
3	reply speech: assert	past	the Dog			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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