The Aesop for Children, The Fisherman and the Little Fish, sentence 5
When I am bigger, I shall make you a much better meal."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, make · To what, where: you
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.
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 bigger | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bigger | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bigger | cop |
| 4 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 make | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bigger | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 meal | det |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 better | advmod |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 meal | amod |
| 13 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bigger | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bigger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | shall | I | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product |
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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