The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 13
Could she sing just one song, I know I should hail her Queen of Birds."
Who acts: Bird, I · What happens: sing, know, hail · To what, where: one song, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bird, 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sing | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sing | nsubj |
| 3 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 song | nummod |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sing | parataxis |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 hail | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hail | aux |
| 12 | hail | hail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 know | ccomp |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hail | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Birds | case |
| 16 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Queen | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sing | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | could | Bird | one song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hail | should | I | Bird's Queen of Birds | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=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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