The Aesop for Children, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, sentence 7
"Your highness," he said in an undertone, so the Ass could not hear him, "I've got a fine scheme in my head.
Who acts: Fox, Ass · What happens: say, not hear, get · To what, where: undertone, Fox, fine scheme, head · 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, Ass), 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 highness | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 highness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 highness | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 highness | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 undertone | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 undertone | det |
| 10 | undertone | undertone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hear | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 hear | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Ass | det |
| 14 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hear | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hear | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 hear | advmod |
| 17 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hear | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 got | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 got | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 got | nsubj |
| 22 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 got | aux |
| 23 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 hear | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 scheme | det |
| 25 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 scheme | amod |
| 26 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 got | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 head | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 scheme | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Fox | a undertone | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in undertone=Manner | ||||
| 2 | not hear | could | the Ass | Fox | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · perfect | Fox | a fine scheme | my head | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scheme=Stimulus |
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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