The Aesop for Children, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, sentence 2
"Take good care of the house, my son," she said to the Kid, as she carefully latched the door. "
Who acts: Kid, house · What happens: take, say, latch, care · To what, where: good care, Kid, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kid, house), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 care | amod |
| 4 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 care | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | vocative |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Kid | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Kid | det |
| 17 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 latched | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 latched | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 latched | nsubj |
| 21 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 22 latched | advmod |
| 22 | latched | latch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 latched | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | the Kid = kid not said here | good care of the house | my son vocative | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent care=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kid | the Kid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to kid=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | latch | past | Kid | the door | carefully property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 4 | care in a quote | the house | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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