The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and His Shadow, sentence 5
I'll show him who is fit to be king, he or I."
Who acts: I · What happens: show, be · To what, where: I., Wolf, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and His Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | 3 show | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | aux |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 show | iobj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 fit | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fit | cop |
| 7 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 show | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 king | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 king | cop |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fit | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 I. | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 I. | nsubj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 I. | cc |
| 14 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 show | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | future | I | I. | Wolf | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | fit property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | king | 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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