The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 13
To tell the truth, I even ate up a shepherd now and then.
Who acts: I · What happens: tell, eat up · To what, where: truth, shepherd · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 tell | mark |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tell | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ate | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ate | nsubj |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 ate | advmod |
| 8 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 ate | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shepherd | det |
| 11 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ate | obj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 ate | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 then | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 now | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | eat up | past | I | a shepherd | now | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Patient |
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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