The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 9
"I will confess all _my_ sins first.
Who acts: lamb · What happens: confess · To what, where: 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 (lamb), 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 | _ | 4 confess | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 confess | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 confess | aux |
| 4 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 sins | det |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sins | nmod:poss |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 sins | punct |
| 9 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 confess | obj |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 confess | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess in a quote | future | lamb | my sins | first property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Topic |
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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