The Aesop for Children, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, sentence 9
Put your mouths close to my ears while you tell me the facts."
Who acts: you · What happens: put, tell · To what, where: mouths, facts, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rabbit, the Weasel, 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 (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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mouths | amod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ears | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 close | obl |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 tell | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 facts | det |
| 13 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tell | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | your mouths | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mouth=Goal | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | you | the facts | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient fact=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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