The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Goat, sentence 4

Please listen to me and come down!

Who acts: you · What happens: listen, come down · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Please	please	INTJ	_	2 listen	discourse
2	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 listen	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 come	cc
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 listen	conj
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here		me				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
2	come down	infinitive	you not said here					down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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