The Aesop for Children, The Swallow and the Crow, sentence 6
"Your feathers may do very well in spring," replied the Crow, "but--I don't remember ever having seen you around in winter, and that's when I enjoy myself most."
Who acts: feathers, Crow, Swallow, that · What happens: do, reply, not remember, have, see around, be · To what, where: you, Swallow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Swallow 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 (feathers, Crow, Swallow, that), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 do | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 spring | case |
| 9 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Crow | det |
| 14 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 remember | cc |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 but | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 remember | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 remember | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 remember | advmod |
| 22 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 having | advmod |
| 24 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 remember | advcl |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 having | xcomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 seen | obj |
| 27 | around | around | ADV | _ | 25 seen | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 winter | case |
| 29 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seen | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 enjoy | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 enjoy | cc |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 when | nsubj |
| 33 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 when | cop |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 enjoy | advmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 enjoy | nsubj |
| 36 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | parataxis |
| 37 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 enjoy | obj |
| 38 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 36 enjoy | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | may | Your feathers | spring | well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Crow | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not remember in a quote | present · do-support | the Swallow = swallow | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | gerund | the Swallow = swallow not said here | ever | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see around in a quote | participle | the Swallow = swallow not said here | you | winter | around property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | that | when property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | enjoy in a quote | present | the Swallow = swallow | the Swallow = swallow | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus |
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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