The Aesop for Children, The Tortoise and the Ducks, sentence 10
But keep quiet or you will be sorry."
Who acts: you · What happens: keep, be
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Tortoise and the Ducks. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 keep | cc |
| 2 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 keep | xcomp |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 sorry | cc |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 sorry | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorry | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sorry | cop |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quiet | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keep | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | future | you | sorry 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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