The Aesop for Children, The Mischievous Dog, sentence 4
"You would be wiser," said an old acquaintance, "to keep quietly out of sight with that clog.
Who acts: You, wiser · What happens: be, say, keep · To what, where: old acquaintance, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mischievous Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wiser), 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 wiser | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wiser | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wiser | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wiser | cop |
| 5 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wiser | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wiser | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 acquaintance | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 acquaintance | amod |
| 11 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 15 keep | advmod |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 sight | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sight | case |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 clog | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 clog | det |
| 22 | clog | clog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | would | You | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wiser | a old acquaintance | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Topic | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | wiser not said here | sight | with that clog; quietly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent out sight=Location |
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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