The Aesop for Children, The Lion's Share, sentence 7
"I am King Lion," he said, when he had finished, "so of course I get the first part.
Who acts: King Lion, Wolf · What happens: be, say, finish, get · To what, where: King Lion, first part · 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 (King Lion, 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 | _ | 5 Lion | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Lion | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Lion | cop |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lion | compound |
| 5 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lion | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lion | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 finished | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 finished | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 finished | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 finished | aux |
| 14 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 finished | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 get | advmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 21 get | advmod |
| 19 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 of | fixed |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 part | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 part | amod |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | King Lion = lion | King Lion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | finish | past · perfect | Wolf | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get in a quote | present | King Lion = lion | the first part | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=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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