The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 7
But please do not tell anybody about it.
Who acts: you · What happens: not tell · To what, where: anybody · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 2 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 5 tell | discourse |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 tell | advmod |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 tell | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | imperative · do-support | you not said here | anybody | about way | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent anybody=Recipient about it=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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