The Aesop for Children, The Gnat and the Bull, sentence 4
"You must be very glad to have me go now," he said.
Who acts: You, Gnat · What happens: be, have, go, say · To what, where: Gnat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Gnat and the Bull. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Gnat), 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 | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 glad | advmod |
| 6 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | xcomp |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | You | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | Gnat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | Gnat not said here | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Gnat | 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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