The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 14
"You may have luxuries and dainties that I have not," she said as she hurried away, "but I prefer my plain food and simple life in the country with the peace and security that go with it."
Who acts: You, Mouse, security · What happens: have, not have, say, hurry away, prefer, go · To what, where: luxuries, plain food, country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Mouse, security), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | luxuries | luxury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dainties | cc |
| 7 | dainties | dainty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 luxuries | conj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 have | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 luxuries | acl:relcl |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 have | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 hurried | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hurried | nsubj |
| 18 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 hurried | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 prefer | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 prefer | nsubj |
| 24 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 food | nmod:poss |
| 26 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 food | amod |
| 27 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prefer | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 life | cc |
| 29 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 life | amod |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 food | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 country | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 country | det |
| 33 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prefer | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 peace | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 peace | det |
| 36 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prefer | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 security | cc |
| 38 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 peace | conj |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 go | nsubj |
| 40 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 security | acl:relcl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 go | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | may | You | luxuries and dainties | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not have in a quote | present | Mouse | luxuries and dainties | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hurry away | past | Mouse | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | prefer in a quote | present | Mouse | my plain food and simple life | the country | with the peace and security | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | ||
| 6 | go in a quote | present | security | with country | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary |
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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