The Aesop for Children, The Young Crab and His Mother, sentence 3

"Show me how to walk, mother dear," answered the little Crab obediently, "I want to learn."

Who acts: you, little Crab · What happens: show, walk, answer, want, learn · To what, where: little Crab · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Young Crab and His Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little Crab), 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	_	2 Show	punct
2	Show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Show	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 walk	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 walk	mark
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Show	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	conj
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 walk	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Show	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Show	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Show	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Crab	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Crab	amod
15	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 answered	obj
16	obediently	obediently	ADV	_	20 want	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 obediently	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 want	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 want	nsubj
20	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 answered	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 learn	mark
22	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 want	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Show	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	show in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the little Crab = crab		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	walk in a quote	to-infinitive			dear property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	the little Crab			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	want in a quote	present	the little Crab = crab		obediently property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	learn not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the little Crab = crab not said here			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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