The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Dolphin, sentence 8
"You are a citizen of illustrious Athens, are you not?" asked the Dolphin politely.
Who acts: You · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: citizen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Dolphin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 5 citizen | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 citizen | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 citizen | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 citizen | det |
| 5 | citizen | citizen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Athens | case |
| 7 | illustrious | illustrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Athens | amod |
| 8 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 citizen | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 citizen | punct |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | cop |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 asked | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 not | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 not | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 citizen | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Dolphin | det |
| 17 | Dolphin | Dolphin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 15 asked | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 citizen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | a citizen | of illustrious Athens | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not be speech: ask | present | you | ask, politely property | tree rules |
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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