The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Jewel, sentence 4

But as for me, I would choose a single grain of barleycorn before all the jewels in the world."

Who acts: I · What happens: choose · To what, where: single grain

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Jewel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	8 choose	cc
2	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 me	case
3	for	for	ADP	_	2 as	fixed
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 choose	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 me	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 choose	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 choose	aux
8	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 grain	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grain	amod
11	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 choose	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 barleycorn	case
13	barleycorn	barleycorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grain	nmod
14	before	before	ADP	_	17 jewels	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 jewels	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 jewels	det
17	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 choose	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jewels	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 choose	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 choose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	would	I	a single grain of barleycorn			before all jewels in the world	as me	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme

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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