The Aesop for Children, The Hare and His Ears, sentence 10
He will certainly make out that my ears are horns, no matter what I say."
Who acts: Goodby, ears, I · What happens: make out, be, say · To what, where: horns, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and His Ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goodby, ears, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 make | compound:prt |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 horns | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ears | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 horns | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 horns | cop |
| 10 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 matter | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 matter | det |
| 13 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 horns | appos |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 say | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 say | nsubj |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 matter | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make out | future | Goodby | certainly property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | my ears | horns | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | I | no matter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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