The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Purse, sentence 13

"No, no," replied the other, "You would not say 'we' before, so now stick to your 'I'.

Who acts: You · What happens: reply, not say, stick · To what, where: other, we, I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Purse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	_	7 replied	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 replied	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 No	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 replied	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
12	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 say	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 say	advmod
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 replied	conj
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 we	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 say	obj
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 we	punct
19	before	before	ADV	_	15 say	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stick	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 stick	advmod
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 stick	advmod
23	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 say	ccomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 I	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 I	nmod:poss
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 I	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 stick	obl
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 stick	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past		the other				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic
2	not say speech: assert in a quote	would	You	we			before property	tree rules
3	stick in a quote	infinitive			I	now		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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