The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Kite, sentence 14
"To win you I would have said and promised anything," replied the Kite.
Who acts: Kite · What happens: win, say, promise, reply · To what, where: you, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Kite. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kite), 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 win | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 win | mark |
| 3 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 win | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | aux |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 win | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 promised | cc |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 promised | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 win | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 win | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Kite | det |
| 16 | Kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | would · perfect | the Kite = kite | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | the Kite = kite not said here | anything | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | the Kite | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=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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