The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Stork, sentence 7

"You may be a very good bird," answered the Farmer, "but I caught you with the thieving Cranes and you will have to share the same punishment with them."

Who acts: Farmer, good bird · What happens: be, answer, catch, thieve, have, share · To what, where: good bird, Farmer, same punishment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Farmer, good bird), 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	_	8 bird	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 bird	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bird	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 bird	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 good	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bird	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 bird	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Farmer	det
13	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Farmer	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Farmer	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 caught	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 caught	nsubj
18	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 caught	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 Cranes	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Cranes	det
22	thieving	thieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 Cranes	amod
23	Cranes	Crane	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 caught	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 have	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 caught	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 share	mark
29	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 have	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 punishment	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 punishment	amod
32	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 share	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 share	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	may	the Farmer = farmer	a good bird			tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	a good bird		the Farmer		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent farmer=Eventuality
3	catch in a quote	past	a good bird = bird	the Farmer = farmer		with the thieving Cranes	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	thieve in a quote	gerund					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	have in a quote	future	the Farmer = farmer				tree rules
6	share in a quote	to-infinitive	the Farmer = farmer not said here	the same punishment		with Cranes = crane	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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