The Aesop for Children, The Dog in the Manger, sentence 4

How selfish he is!" said one. "

Who acts: selfish · What happens: be, say · To what, where: selfish, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog in the Manger. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (selfish), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 selfish	advmod
2	selfish	selfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 is	nsubj
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 selfish	acl:relcl
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 selfish	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 selfish	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 said	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	selfish	selfish not said here					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot selfish=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	selfish	one					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=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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