The Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun, sentence 3
"Let us agree," said the Sun, "that he is the stronger who can strip that Traveler of his cloak."
Who acts: us, Sun · What happens: let, agree, say, be, strip · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, Sun), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sun | det |
| 9 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stronger | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 stronger | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 stronger | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stronger | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 stronger | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stronger | det |
| 16 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 said | parataxis |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 strip | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 strip | aux |
| 19 | strip | strip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 stronger | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 cloak | mark |
| 21 | Traveler | Traveler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 cloak | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 cloak | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 24 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 strip | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Sun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Sun | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | strip in a quote | can | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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