The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 17
Please come up and taste this delicious drink with me.
Who acts: you · What happens: come up, taste · To what, where: delicious drink
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 (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 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 2 come | discourse |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 come | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 taste | cc |
| 5 | taste | taste | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | conj |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 drink | det |
| 7 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 drink | amod |
| 8 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taste | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 taste | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | taste | infinitive | you not said here | this delicious drink | with me | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme drink=Attribute |
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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