The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 17
"Your majesty," said the Fox, "you are too good.
Who acts: majesty, you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Fox · 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 (majesty, you), 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 majesty | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 majesty | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 majesty | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fox | det |
| 8 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 good | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 good | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 good | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 good | cop |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 good | advmod |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Your majesty | the Fox | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | good property | 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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