The Aesop for Children, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, sentence 8

"Show me a white paw," he said, "or I won't let you in."

Who acts: Wolf · What happens: show, say, not let in · To what, where: white paw, Wolf, you · 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 (Wolf), 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 Show	punct
2	Show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Show	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 paw	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 paw	amod
6	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Show	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Show	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Show	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 let	nsubj
15	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 let	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 let	advmod
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	17 let	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	show in a quote	infinitive		a white paw	Wolf	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient paw=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Wolf			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not let in in a quote	future	Wolf	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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