The Aesop for Children, The Fisherman and the Little Fish, sentence 7
"How foolish I should be," he said, "to throw you back.
Who acts: Fisherman · What happens: be, say, throw back · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fisherman), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 foolish | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 foolish | advmod |
| 3 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 be | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 6 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 foolish | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 foolish | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 foolish | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 throw | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 throw | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 throw | mark |
| 14 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 throw | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 throw | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | should | Fisherman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fisherman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | throw back in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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