The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Gnat, sentence 3
"Do you think," he said spitefully to the Lion, "that I am afraid of you because they call you king?"
Who acts: Lion, Gnat, that, they · What happens: think, say, be, call · To what, where: Lion, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Gnat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, Gnat, that, they), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | ccomp |
| 9 | spitefully | spitefully | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Lion | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lion | det |
| 12 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 afraid | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 afraid | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 afraid | nsubj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 afraid | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 afraid | cop |
| 18 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 think | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 afraid | obl |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 call | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 call | nsubj |
| 23 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 afraid | advcl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 call | obj |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 call | xcomp |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | the Lion = lion | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Gnat | the Lion | spitefully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lion=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | of you; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call in a quote | present | they | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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