The Aesop for Children, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, sentence 11
But come, I know a good place to hide till he is gone."
Who acts: you, I, Fox · What happens: come, know, hide, be · To what, where: good place
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 (you, I, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 come | cc |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hide | mark |
| 10 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 place | acl |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 gone | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | cop |
| 14 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hide | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | present | I | a good place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hide | to-infinitive | I not said here | a good place not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Fox | gone 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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