The Aesop for Children, The Lion's Share, sentence 10
If any of you have any claim to the part that is left," he growled, stretching his claws meaningly, "now is the time to speak up."
Who acts: any, Wolf · What happens: have, leave, growl, stretch, be, speak up · To what, where: claim, part, claws, time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion's Share. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (any, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 any | nmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 growled | advcl |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 claim | det |
| 7 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 part | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 part | det |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 claim | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 left | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 left | aux:pass |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 part | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 growled | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 growled | nsubj |
| 17 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stretching | punct |
| 19 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 growled | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 claws | nmod:poss |
| 21 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stretching | obj |
| 22 | meaningly | meaningly | ADV | _ | 19 stretching | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 time | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 time | punct |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 time | advmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 time | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stretching | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 speak | mark |
| 30 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 time | acl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 speak | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 growled | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 growled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | any | any claim | to the part | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Patient | |||
| 2 | leave | present · passive | the part | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | growl in a quote | past | Wolf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stretch in a quote | gerund | Wolf not said here | Wolf's claws | meaningly property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent claw=Patient | |||
| 5 | is a | present | the time | now | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | speak up speech: other | to-infinitive | Wolf not said here | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=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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