The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Cat, sentence 6
"I would gladly get them," said the cunning Monkey, "but you are much more skillful at such things than I am.
Who acts: cunning Monkey, you · What happens: get, say, be · To what, where: Cat, such things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cunning Monkey, 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 get | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Monkey | det |
| 11 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Monkey | amod |
| 12 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 skillful | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 skillful | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 skillful | cop |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 skillful | advmod |
| 20 | skillful | skillful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 things | case |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 skillful | obl |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 I | case |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 skillful | obl |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 skillful | cop |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | would | the cunning Monkey = monkey | Cat | gladly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the cunning Monkey | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | such things | than the cunning Monkey = monkey; skillful 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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