The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, sentence 17

He cannot fool us again," they said.

Who acts: Wolf, Villagers · What happens: not fool, say · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, Villagers), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fool	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fool	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 fool	advmod
4	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fool	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 fool	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fool	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fool	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fool	parataxis
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fool	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fool	can	Wolf	us			again		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Villagers = villager						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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