The Aesop for Children, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, sentence 10
"I made him promise not to hurt us," said the Fox. "
Who acts: Fox · What happens: make, promise, not hurt, say · To what, where: Fox, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox), 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 | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 hurt | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hurt | mark |
| 8 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 promise | ccomp |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hurt | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | 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 Fox | det |
| 14 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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 | make in a quote | past | Fox | Fox | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise in a quote | infinitive | Fox not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not hurt not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | us | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Patient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Fox | 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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