The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 7

"Well," retorted the Cat, "I admit I know one trick only, but that one, let me tell you, is worth a thousand of yours!"

Who acts: Cat, one · What happens: retort, admit, know, let, tell, be · To what, where: one trick, Cat, 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 (Cat, one), 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 retorted	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 retorted	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 retorted	punct
5	retorted	retort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 worth	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cat	det
7	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 retorted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 admit	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 admit	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 admit	nsubj
11	admit	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 retorted	parataxis
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 admit	ccomp
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 trick	nummod
15	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 know	obj
16	only	only	ADV	_	15 trick	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 let	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 admit	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 retorted	punct
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 worth	cop
28	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 thousand	det
30	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 worth	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 yours	case
32	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 thousand	nmod
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 worth	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 worth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	retort speech: other	past	the Cat				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	admit speech: other in a quote	present	the Cat = cat				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	present	the Cat = cat	one trick			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus
4	let in a quote	infinitive	that one	the Cat = cat			tree rules
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	the Cat = cat not said here		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	is in a quote	present				worth property	tree rules

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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