The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 16

I am quite sure we shall become the closest of friends."

Who acts: I, we · What happens: be, become

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, we), 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 sure	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 sure	advmod
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 become	nsubj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 become	aux
7	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sure	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 closest	det
9	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 become	xcomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 friends	case
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 closest	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					sure property	tree rules
2	become	shall	we					close property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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