The Aesop for Children, The Fisherman and the Little Fish, sentence 4
I am so small it is not worth while to carry me home.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not be, carry · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fisherman and the Little Fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:1203): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 small | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 small | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 small | advmod |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 worth | expl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 worth | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 worth | advmod |
| 8 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 small | ccomp |
| 9 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 worth | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 carry | mark |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 worth | csubj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 carry | obj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 carry | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | I not said here | while | worth property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | me | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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