The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Hedgehog, sentence 4
Let me drive the flies away," he said kindly.
Who acts: you, me, Hedgehog · What happens: let, drive away, say · To what, where: me, flies · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, Hedgehog), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flies | det |
| 5 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drive | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 drive | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drive | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | 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 | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 11 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive away | infinitive | me not said here | the flies | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Hedgehog | kindly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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