The Aesop for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise, sentence 3
"Yes," replied the Tortoise, "and I get there sooner than you think.
Who acts: Tortoise, you · What happens: reply, get, think · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tortoise, 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tortoise | det |
| 7 | Tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 get | advmod |
| 14 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 get | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 think | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 think | nsubj |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sooner | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Tortoise | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present | the Tortoise = tortoise | there | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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