The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Kite, sentence 6

"Take me," said the Kite; "I am very strong, stronger even than you!"

Who acts: you, Kite, Eagle · What happens: take, say, be · To what, where: Kite · 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 (you, Kite, Eagle), 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	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Take	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Kite	det
8	Kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 strong	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 strong	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 strong	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 strong	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 strong	advmod
14	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Take	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stronger	punct
16	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 strong	conj
17	even	even	ADV	_	19 you	advmod
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 stronger	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the Kite = kite		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme clause=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	the Kite			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	the Eagle = eagle		strong property	tree rules
4	be in a quote		the Eagle = eagle not said here		than you	tree rules

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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