The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 2

"You must come and dine with me today," he said to the Stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play.

Who acts: Stork, Fox · What happens: come, dine, say, smile, go, play · To what, where: Stork, Fox, trick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stork, Fox), 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	_	4 come	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dine	cc
6	dine	dine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 dine	obl
9	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dine	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Stork	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Stork	det
16	Stork	Stork	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 smiling	punct
18	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 smiling	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 trick	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 trick	det
23	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 smiling	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 going	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 trick	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 play	mark
28	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 going	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	must	the Stork = stork						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dine in a quote	infinitive	the Stork = stork not said here				today	with Fox	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Fox		the Stork				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to stork=Recipient clause=Topic
4	smile	gerund	Fox not said here		Fox	the trick			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
5	go	past · progressive	Fox	the trick not said here					tree rules
6	play	to-infinitive	Fox not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «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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