The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lamb, sentence 7
"But, your highness," replied the trembling Lamb, "do not be angry!
Who acts: highness · What happens: reply, not be · To what, where: trembling · 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 (highness), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 replied | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 highness | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 highness | nmod:poss |
| 5 | highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 highness | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 highness | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trembling | det |
| 10 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 trembling | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 angry | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 angry | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 angry | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 angry | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 angry | cop |
| 17 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | advcl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: express | past | your highness | the trembling | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent trembling=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | your highness not said here | angry 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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