The Aesop for Children, The Kid and the Wolf, sentence 3
"I hear you," said the Wolf, "and I haven't the least grudge against you for what you say or do.
Who acts: Wolf, I, you · What happens: hear, say, have, do · To what, where: you, least grudge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Kid and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, I, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wolf | det |
| 9 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | conj |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 grudge | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grudge | det |
| 17 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 grudge | amod |
| 18 | grudge | grudge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 grudge | nmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 what | case |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 grudge | nmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 say | nsubj |
| 24 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 do | cc |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 say | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present | the Wolf = wolf | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | I | the least grudge | against you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grudge=Patient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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