The Aesop for Children, Jupiter and the Monkey, sentence 8
Though Jupiter may not give him the prize, I know that he is the prettiest, the sweetest, the dearest darling in the world."
Who acts: Jupiter, I · What happens: not give, know, be · To what, where: prize, laugh, dearest darling · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Jupiter and the Monkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jupiter, 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 2 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prize | det |
| 8 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 prettiest | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 prettiest | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 prettiest | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prettiest | det |
| 16 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 know | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sweetest | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sweetest | det |
| 19 | sweetest | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 prettiest | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 darling | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 darling | det |
| 22 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 darling | amod |
| 23 | darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sweetest | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 darling | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | may | Jupiter | the prize | laugh | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient prize=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Jupiter | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Jupiter not said here | the dearest darling in the world | tree rules |
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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