The Aesop for Children, The Tortoise and the Ducks, sentence 9
Take hold of this stick with your teeth and we will carry you far up in the air where you can see the whole countryside.
Who acts: you, we · What happens: take, carry, see, hold · To what, where: hold, you, air, whole countryside, stick
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, we), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 stick | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 stick | det |
| 5 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hold | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 teeth | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carry | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 carry | aux |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | obj |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 up | advmod |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 carry | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carry | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 see | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 air | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 countryside | det |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 countryside | amod |
| 25 | countryside | countryside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | hold of this stick | with your teeth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | future | we | you | the air | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Value in air=Location | |||
| 3 | see | can | you | the whole countryside | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer countryside=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hold | this stick | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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