The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Kite, sentence 5

"I want to get married," replied the Eagle, "and I can't find a mate who can provide for me as I should like."

Who acts: Eagle, mate · What happens: want, marry, reply, not find, provide, like · To what, where: mate · 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 (Eagle, mate), 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 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	ccomp
4	to	to	PART	_	6 married	mark
5	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 married	aux:pass
6	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 want	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Eagle	det
11	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 find	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
16	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 find	advmod
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 replied	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mate	det
20	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 provide	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 provide	aux
23	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 mate	acl:relcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 provide	obl
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 like	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 like	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 like	aux
29	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 provide	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	the Eagle = eagle			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	the Eagle = eagle not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
3	reply speech: assert	past	the Eagle			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not find in a quote	can	the Eagle = eagle	a mate		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic
5	provide in a quote	can	a mate		for the Eagle = eagle	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for i=Recipient
6	like in a quote	should	the Eagle = eagle			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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