The Aesop for Children, The Boys and the Frogs, sentence 4

At last one of the Frogs, the oldest and bravest, put his head out of the water, and said, "Oh, please, dear children, stop your cruel play!

Who acts: you, your · What happens: put, say, stop, play · To what, where: head, water, dear children, cruel play · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boys and the Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 one	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Frogs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Frogs	det
6	Frogs	Frog	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 oldest	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 oldest	det
9	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 Frogs	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bravest	cc
11	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 oldest	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 water	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 water	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 put	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 children	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 children	punct
25	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	30 children	discourse
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Oh	punct
27	please	please	INTJ	_	25 Oh	discourse
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Oh	punct
29	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 children	amod
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 said	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stop	punct
32	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 put	conj
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 play	nmod:poss
34	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 play	amod
35	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stop	obj
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	pond's head	the water	at last one of the Frogs the oldest	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at one=Destination
2	say speech: express	past	you not said here	dear children			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	stop in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	your cruel play			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality play=Eventuality
4	play in a quote		your				nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=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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