The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Ass, sentence 8
"Yes, indeed," answered the Lion, "and if I had not known you and your kind I should certainly have run, too."
Who acts: Lion · What happens: answer, not know, run · To what, where: you · 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 (Lion), 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 | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 answered | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lion | det |
| 9 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 known | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 known | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 known | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 known | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 known | advmod |
| 17 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 answered | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 known | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kind | cc |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 kind | nmod:poss |
| 21 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 you | conj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 run | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 run | aux |
| 24 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 26 run | advmod |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 run | aux |
| 26 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 known | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 too | punct |
| 28 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 run | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Lion | indeed property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | the Lion = lion | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run in a quote | should · perfect | the Lion = lion | certainly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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