The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lamb, sentence 17
But no matter who it was, I do not intend to be talked out of my breakfast."
Who acts: matter, I · What happens: be, not intend, talk out · To what, where: matter, breakfast
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 (matter, I), 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 | _ | 11 intend | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 matter | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 intend | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 matter | appos |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 who | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 who | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 matter | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 intend | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 intend | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 intend | advmod |
| 11 | intend | intend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 talked | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 talked | aux:pass |
| 14 | talked | talk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 intend | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 breakfast | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 breakfast | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 18 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 talked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 intend | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 intend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | matter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not intend | present · do-support | I | no matter | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | talk out | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | my breakfast | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: breakfast=Patient |
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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