The Aesop for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise, sentence 4

I'll run you a race and prove it."

Who acts: I · What happens: run, prove · To what, where: race, you

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 run	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 run	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 race	det
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 prove	cc
8	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 run	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 prove	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 run	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	future	I	a race	you				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary race=Product
2	prove	infinitive	I not said here	race					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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