The Aesop for Children, The Rat and the Elephant, sentence 11
Look at me, and you will soon forget that clumsy Elephant!
Who acts: you · What happens: look, forget · To what, where: clumsy Elephant
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rat and the Elephant. 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Look | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 forget | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 forget | cc |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 forget | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 forget | aux |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 forget | advmod |
| 9 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Look | conj |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 Elephant | det |
| 11 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Elephant | amod |
| 12 | Elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forget | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | future | you | that clumsy Elephant | soon 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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