The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Purse, sentence 5
"Do not say '_I_ have found a purse,'" said his companion. "
Who acts: you, companion · What happens: not say, find, say · To what, where: purse · 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, companion), 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 | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 say | advmod |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 8 | _ | _ | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 found | aux |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 purse | det |
| 12 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 companion | nmod:poss |
| 18 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find in a quote | perfect | his companion = companion | a purse | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | his companion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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