The Aesop for Children, The Wolves and the Sheep, sentence 6
Send them away and you will see what good friends we shall become."
Who acts: you, good friends · What happens: send away, see, become · To what, where: Dogs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolves and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, good friends), 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 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Send | obj |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Send | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Send | conj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 become | obj |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 friends | amod |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 become | nsubj |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 become | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 become | aux |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send away | imperative | you not said here | Dogs = dog | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | become | shall | good friends | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient what=Result |
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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