The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lamb, sentence 11

And besides, I have heard that you told lies about me last year!"

Who acts: I, you · What happens: hear, tell · To what, where: lies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lamb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 heard	cc
2	besides	besides	INTJ	_	6 heard	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 besides	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 told	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
10	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 told	obj
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 lies	nmod
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 year	amod
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obl:unmarked
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	I						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	you	lies			year	about me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient about i=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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