The Aesop for Children, The Kid and the Wolf, sentence 5
_Do not say anything at any time that you would not say at all times.
Who acts: _, you · What happens: not say · To what, where: anything, time · 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 (_, 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 say | advmod |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 say | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 say | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 say | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 say | advmod |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 time | acl:relcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 times | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 times | det |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 say | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | infinitive | _ | anything | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | |||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | would | you | any time | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
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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