The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 15
But I think it best that each one confess his sins as I have done.
Who acts: I, one · What happens: think, confess, do · To what, where: shepherd, sins
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, one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 think | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 think | obj |
| 5 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 think | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 confess | mark |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 confess | nsubj |
| 9 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sins | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 confess | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 done | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 done | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 confess | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | shepherd | well property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 2 | confess | infinitive | each one | lamb's sins | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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