The Aesop for Children, The Tortoise and the Ducks, sentence 8
"We can help you to see the world," said the Ducks. "
Who acts: We, you, Ducks · What happens: help, see, say · To what, where: you, world · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, you, Ducks), 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 help | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Ducks | det |
| 14 | Ducks | Duck | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | can | We | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Ducks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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