The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Monkey, sentence 9
"You pretend to be our king," he said, "and cannot even take care of yourself!"
Who acts: You, Fox · What happens: pretend, be, say, not take · To what, where: king, care · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Monkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Fox), 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 pretend | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 pretend | nsubj |
| 3 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 king | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 king | cop |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 king | nmod:poss |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pretend | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretend | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretend | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 take | advmod |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 take | advmod |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 yourself | case |
| 21 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 take | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend in a quote | present | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | our king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not take in a quote | can | Fox not said here | care | of yourself | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of yourself=Initial_Location |
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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