The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Hedgehog, sentence 5
"No, no!" exclaimed the Fox, "do not disturb them!
Who acts: Fox · What happens: exclaim, not disturb · To what, where: 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 (Fox), 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 | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 exclaimed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fox | det |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 disturb | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 disturb | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 disturb | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 disturb | advmod |
| 14 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 exclaimed | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 disturb | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the Fox | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not disturb in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the Fox not said here | flies = fly | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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