The Aesop for Children, The Bat and the Weasels, sentence 13

"You are a Bird," he said, "and I am going to eat you!"

Who acts: You, Bird · What happens: be, say, go, eat · To what, where: Bird, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bat and the Weasels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Bird), 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	_	5 Bird	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 Bird	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Bird	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Bird	det
5	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Bird	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Bird	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 going	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 going	xcomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 eat	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	You	a Bird	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	Bird		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	Bird		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	Bird not said here	you	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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