The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 17
"I feel highly flattered, kind sir," replied the Cock slyly. "
Who acts: Cock · What happens: feel, flatter, reply · 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 (Cock), 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 | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 5 flattered | advmod |
| 5 | flattered | flatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sir | punct |
| 7 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sir | amod |
| 8 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feel | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cock | det |
| 13 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | slyly | slyly | ADV | _ | 11 replied | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | present | the Cock = cock | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | flatter in a quote | participle | the Cock = cock not said here | highly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Cock | slyly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=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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