The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Purse, sentence 6
Say rather '_we_ have found a purse' and 'how lucky _we_ are.'
Who acts: you, we · What happens: say, find, be · 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, we), 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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 1 Say | advmod |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 rather | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 6 | _ | _ | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 found | aux |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 purse | det |
| 10 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lucky | cc |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 lucky | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 lucky | advmod |
| 15 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 found | conj |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 lucky | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 lucky | nsubj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 lucky | punct |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 lucky | cop |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | perfect | we | a purse | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | we | lucky property | 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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