The Aesop for Children, The Quack Toad, sentence 7
If you can cure yourself of that blotchy skin and that rheumatic gait, someone might believe you.
Who acts: you, someone · What happens: cure, believe · To what, where: yourself, you
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Quack Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, someone), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 cure | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 cure | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cure | aux |
| 4 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 believe | advcl |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 cure | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 skin | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 skin | det |
| 8 | blotchy | blotchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 skin | amod |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cure | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gait | cc |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 gait | det |
| 12 | rheumatic | rheumatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gait | amod |
| 13 | gait | gait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skin | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cure | punct |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 believe | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 believe | aux |
| 17 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 believe | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure a condition, not said to happen | can | you | yourself | of that blotchy skin and that rheumatic gait | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer yourself=Source of skin=Theme | |||
| 2 | believe | might | someone | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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