The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 13

But first please pipe me a tune, for I want to dance and be merry as long as I can."

Who acts: I, tune · What happens: want, dance, be · To what, where: tune

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Kid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tune), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 tune	cc
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 pipe	advmod
3	please	please	INTJ	_	4 pipe	discourse
4	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tune	nsubj
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 pipe	nmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tune	det
7	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 want	case
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
11	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tune	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 dance	mark
13	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 want	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 merry	cc
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 merry	cop
16	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dance	ccomp
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 merry	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 can	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 can	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 long	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tune	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 tune	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	a tune not said here		tree rules
2	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive	a tune not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	infinitive	a tune not said here		long, merry property	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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