The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 10

_Then_ is the time to eat me."

What happens: be, eat · To what, where: time, me

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lean Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	6 time	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 time	advmod
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 time	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 time	acl
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 eat	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the time			then		tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive		me					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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