The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Ass, sentence 6
If you do not, it might stick in your throat when you eat me."
Who acts: you, thorn · What happens: not do, stick, eat · To what, where: throat, me
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf 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, thorn), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stick | advcl |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 do | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stick | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 stick | aux |
| 8 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 throat | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 throat | nmod:poss |
| 11 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stick | obl |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 eat | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stick | advcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 eat | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stick | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stick | might | thorn | your throat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in throat=Destination | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | you | me | 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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