The Aesop for Children, The Kid and the Wolf, sentence 4
When you are up there it is the roof that's talking, not you."
Who acts: you, grudge, roof · What happens: be, talk · To what, where: roof
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 (you, grudge, roof), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 there | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 there | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 there | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 roof | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 roof | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roof | det |
| 9 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 talking | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 talking | aux |
| 12 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 roof | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 you | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 you | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 talking | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | grudge | the roof | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk | present · progressive | the roof | vn talk-37.5 «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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