The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 5
Please let me go and some day I will surely repay you."
Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: let, go, repay · To what, where: me, you
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, me, 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 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 2 let | discourse |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 repay | cc |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 repay | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 repay | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 repay | aux |
| 10 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 11 repay | advmod |
| 11 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 repay | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | me not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | repay | future | I | you | day | surely property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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