The Aesop for Children, The Rose and the Butterfly, sentence 9
I saw you kiss Miss Geranium, and you fluttered around Miss Mignonette until Honey Bee chased you away.
Who acts: I, you, Honey · What happens: see, kiss, flutter, chase away · To what, where: Miss Geranium, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rose and the Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Honey), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 kiss | nsubj |
| 4 | kiss | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 5 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Geranium | compound |
| 6 | Geranium | geranium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kiss | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fluttered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fluttered | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 fluttered | nsubj |
| 10 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 Miss | case |
| 12 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fluttered | obl |
| 13 | Mignonette | Mignonette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Miss | flat |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 chased | mark |
| 15 | Honey | Honey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 chased | nsubj |
| 16 | Bee | Bee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Honey | flat |
| 17 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fluttered | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 chased | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 chased | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | kiss | present | you | Miss Geranium | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geranium=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | flutter | past | you | around Miss | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around miss=Location | ||||
| 4 | chase away | past | Honey | you | away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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