The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lamb, sentence 12

"How could I have done so?" pleaded the Lamb. "

Who acts: Lamb · What happens: do, plead · 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 (Lamb), 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	_	6 done	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 done	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	aux
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 pleaded	advcl
7	so	so	ADV	_	6 done	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
10	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Lamb	det
12	Lamb	Lamb	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pleaded	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 pleaded	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 pleaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	could · perfect	the Lamb = lamb						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	plead speech: request	past	the Lamb						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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