The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 12
"You laughed when I said I would repay you," said the Mouse. "
Who acts: You, I, Mouse · What happens: laugh, say, repay · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, Mouse), 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 laughed | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 said | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | advcl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 repay | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 repay | aux |
| 9 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 repay | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Mouse | det |
| 15 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | past | You | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | repay in a quote | would | I | you | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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