The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 6
Why, I know a whole sackful of tricks!"
Who acts: I · What happens: know · To what, where: whole sackful
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 (I), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 know | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sackful | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sackful | amod |
| 7 | sackful | sackful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tricks | case |
| 9 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sackful | nmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | a whole sackful of tricks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sackful=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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