The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 9
You can guess how fine and fat I will grow on the scraps from the table.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: guess, grow · To what, where: scraps
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 (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 guess | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 guess | aux |
| 3 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 fine | advmod |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guess | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fat | cc |
| 7 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fine | conj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 grow | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 grow | aux |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 guess | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 scraps | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 scraps | det |
| 13 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grow | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 table | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 table | det |
| 16 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grow | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 guess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | can | You | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grow | future | I | the scraps | from the table | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on scrap=Location |
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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