The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 15
"Well sir," she said, "if I must stay awake, I am going to settle right down to enjoy your singing.
Who acts: Owl, your · What happens: say, stay, go, settle, enjoy, sing · To what, where: singing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Owl and the Grasshopper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owl, your), 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 | _ | 3 sir | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 sir | discourse |
| 3 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sir | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sir | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 stay | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 stay | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stay | aux |
| 13 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stay | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 going | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 settle | mark |
| 20 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 going | xcomp |
| 21 | right | right | ADV | _ | 22 down | advmod |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 settle | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 enjoy | mark |
| 24 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 settle | advcl |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 singing | nmod:poss |
| 26 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 enjoy | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Owl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stay a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | must | Owl | awake property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Owl | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | settle in a quote | to-infinitive | Owl not said here | down property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | enjoy in a quote | to-infinitive | Owl not said here | your singing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer singing=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | sing in a quote | your | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=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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