The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 5
Do you pretend to know more than I?
Who acts: you · What happens: pretend, know · To what, where: more
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), 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 pretend | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 pretend | nsubj |
| 3 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pretend | xcomp |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 I | case |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 more | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | present · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | you not said here | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=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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