The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 10
Do come down, dear friend, and let us celebrate the joyful event."
Who acts: you, us · What happens: come down, let, celebrate · To what, where: us, joyful event
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, 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 (you, us), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | aux |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 come | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 friend | amod |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 come | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 event | det |
| 13 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 event | amod |
| 14 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 celebrate | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | imperative · do-support | you not said here | dear friend vocative; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | celebrate | infinitive | us not said here | the joyful event | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=Theme |
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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