The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 18
I know it will make you sing like Apollo himself."
Who acts: I, wine, you · What happens: know, make, sing · To what, where: you · 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 (I, wine, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | xcomp |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 Apollo | case |
| 9 | Apollo | Apollo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sing | obl |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 Apollo | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | make | future | wine | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | infinitive | you not said here | like Apollo Apollo | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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