The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Crane, sentence 13

Isn't it enough that I let you take your head out of my mouth without snapping it off?"

Who acts: head, you · What happens: not be, take, snap off · To what, where: head, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Crane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 let	cop
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 let	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	nsubj:outer
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 let	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 let	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 let	nsubj
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 take	nsubj
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 mouth	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 mouth	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mouth	nmod:poss
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obl
16	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 snapping	mark
17	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 take	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 snapping	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	17 snapping	compound:prt
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	head			enough, let property	tree rules
2	take	infinitive	you	your head	my mouth		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme out mouth=Initial_Location
3	snap off	gerund	you not said here	head			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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