The Aesop for Children, The Oak and the Reeds, sentence 6
"Do not worry about us," replied the Reeds. "
Who acts: you, Reeds · What happens: not worry, reply · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oak and the Reeds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Reeds), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 worry | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 worry | advmod |
| 4 | worry | worry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 worry | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worry | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Reeds | det |
| 11 | Reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not worry in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | about us | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Reeds | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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