The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd and the Lion, sentence 7
"Alas, O Jupiter, man does not know what he asks!
Who acts: man · What happens: not know, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 10 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jupiter | punct |
| 4 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 Jupiter | discourse |
| 5 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Alas | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 know | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 know | advmod |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 asks | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asks | nsubj |
| 13 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | ccomp |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
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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