The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Sheep, sentence 7
If I should bring you a drink, it would only serve to wash me down your throat.
Who acts: I, drink · What happens: bring, serve, wash down · To what, where: drink, you, throat, me
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, drink), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 bring | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 serve | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 drink | det |
| 7 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 serve | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 serve | aux |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 serve | advmod |
| 12 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 wash | mark |
| 14 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 serve | xcomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 wash | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 wash | compound:prt |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 throat | nmod:poss |
| 18 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wash | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring a condition, not said to happen | should | I | a drink | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination drink=Theme | |||
| 2 | serve | would | drink | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wash down | to-infinitive | drink not said here | your throat | me | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary throat=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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