The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 8
"Do not be frightened, children," said the Mother Lark. "
Who acts: Mother Lark · What happens: not frighten, say · To what, where: children · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother Lark), 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 frightened | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 children | punct |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 frightened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lark | det |
| 12 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lark | compound |
| 13 | Lark | Lark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not frighten in a quote | infinitive · passive · do-support | children | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Mother Lark | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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