The Aesop for Children, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, sentence 4

"Yes, yes," answered the Stag confidently, "the Wolf has promised to be my surety."

Who acts: Stag, Wolf · What happens: answer, promise, be · To what, where: surety · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag, the Sheep, 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 (Stag, Wolf), 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	_	7 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Yes	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Stag	det
9	Stag	Stag	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	confidently	confidently	ADV	_	9 Stag	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 promised	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 promised	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Wolf	det
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 promised	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 promised	aux
16	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 answered	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	20 surety	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 surety	cop
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 surety	nmod:poss
20	surety	surety	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 promised	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the Stag		tree rules
2	promise speech: promise in a quote	present · perfect	the Wolf		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Wolf not said here	my surety	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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