The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 15

"Sir," said the Dog, with a grin, "I shall be delighted to have you eat me.

Who acts: Sir, you · What happens: say, be, have, eat · To what, where: Dog, you, Sir · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (Sir, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Dog	det
7	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grin	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 grin	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 grin	det
11	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 delighted	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 delighted	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 delighted	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 delighted	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 delighted	cop
17	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 have	mark
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 delighted	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 have	obj
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 have	xcomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 eat	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sir	the Dog		tree rules
2	is in a quote	shall	Sir		delighted property	tree rules
3	have in a quote	to-infinitive	Sir not said here	you		tree rules
4	eat in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	Sir		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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