The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Sheep, sentence 8

Don't talk to me about a drink!"

Who acts: you · What happens: not talk · To what, where: 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 (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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 talk	advmod
3	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 talk	obl
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 drink	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drink	det
8	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 talk	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	imperative · do-support	you not said here		me			about a drink	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent about drink=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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