The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lion, sentence 7
Did you buy it, or did the Shepherd make you a gift of it?
Who acts: you · What happens: buy, make, gift · To what, where: property, you
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lion. 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 buy | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 buy | nsubj |
| 3 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 buy | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 did | cc |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Shepherd | det |
| 9 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 buy | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gift | det |
| 13 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gift | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past · do-support | you | property | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past · do-support | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | |||||
| 3 | gift | property | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=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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