The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Ass, sentence 7
"Did you see how I made them run?" he said.
Who acts: you, Ass, Goats · What happens: see, make, run, say · To what, where: Goats · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Ass, Goats), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 made | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | ccomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | 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 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | Ass | Goats = goat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run in a quote | infinitive | Goats = goat not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | Ass | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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