The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 4
"You think you are extremely clever, don't you?" said the Fox. "
Who acts: You, Fox · What happens: think, be, do, say · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Fox), 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 | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 clever | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 clever | cop |
| 6 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 7 clever | advmod |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 think | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | conj |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 you | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Fox | det |
| 16 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | You | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | clever, extremely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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