The Aesop for Children, The Mole and His Mother, sentence 8

"Well, my son, that proves you've lost your sense of smell as well as being blind."

Who acts: son, you, your · What happens: prove, lose, be, sense · To what, where: sense, smell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mole and His Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, you, your), 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 son	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 son	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 proves	punct
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 proves	nsubj
8	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 son	acl:relcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 lost	nsubj
10	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	aux
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 proves	ccomp
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sense	nmod:poss
13	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 smell	case
15	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sense	nmod
16	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	20 blind	cc
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 as	fixed
18	as	as	ADP	_	16 as	fixed
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 blind	cop
20	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lost	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prove in a quote	present	my son			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lose in a quote	present · perfect	you	your sense of smell		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Eventuality
3	is in a quote	gerund	you not said here		blind property	tree rules
4	sense in a quote		your	smell		nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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