The Aesop for Children, The Ass in the Lion's Skin, sentence 8
But you gave yourself away with that silly bray."
Who acts: you · What happens: give away · To what, where: yourself
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass in the Lion's Skin. 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 | _ | 3 gave | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 bray | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 bray | det |
| 8 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bray | amod |
| 9 | bray | bray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give away | past | you | yourself | with that silly bray; away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
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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