The Aesop for Children, Hercules and the Wagoner, sentence 7

Do you think you can move the wagon by simply looking at it and whining about it?

Who acts: you · What happens: think, move, look, whine · To what, where: wagon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner. 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 move	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 move	aux
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 think	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wagon	det
8	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 move	obj
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 looking	mark
10	simply	simply	ADV	_	11 looking	advmod
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 move	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looking	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 whining	cc
15	whining	whine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 looking	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 whining	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · do-support	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	move	can	you	the wagon		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wagon=Theme
3	look	gerund	you not said here		at wagon; simply property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
4	whine	gerund	you not said here		about wagon	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=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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