The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Crane, sentence 6
"I will reward you very handsomely," said the Wolf, "if you pull that bone out for me."
Who acts: Wolf, you · What happens: reward, say, pull out · To what, where: you, bone · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wolf, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 reward | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 reward | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 reward | aux |
| 4 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 reward | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 handsomely | advmod |
| 7 | handsomely | handsomely | ADV | _ | 4 reward | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reward | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 reward | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wolf | det |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pull | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 pull | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 pull | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 pull | nsubj |
| 17 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 bone | det |
| 19 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pull | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 pull | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 pull | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reward in a quote | future | the Wolf = wolf | you | handsomely property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pull out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | that bone | for the Wolf = wolf | tree rules |
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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