The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 9
You should at least respect my age and leave me to sleep in quiet!"
Who acts: You · What happens: respect, leave, sleep · To what, where: age, least, me, quiet
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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 respect | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 respect | aux |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 least | case |
| 4 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 respect | obl |
| 5 | respect | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 age | nmod:poss |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 respect | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 leave | cc |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 respect | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 leave | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sleep | mark |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 leave | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 quiet | case |
| 14 | quiet | quiet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sleep | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 respect | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 respect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respect | should | You | my age | least | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer age=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | You not said here | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | You not said here | quiet | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in quiet=Location |
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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