The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 15

I cannot tell you how glad I am to see you here.

Who acts: I · What happens: not tell, be, see · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 glad	advmod
7	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tell	ccomp
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 glad	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 glad	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 glad	xcomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	obj
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 see	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is	present	I				glad property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	I not said here	you		here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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