The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Goat, sentence 7
"How very, very anxious you are about me," she said, "and how generous you are with your grass!
Who acts: you, Goat, anxious · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Goat, anxious), 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 | _ | 6 anxious | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 very | advmod |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 anxious | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 anxious | punct |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 anxious | advmod |
| 6 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 grass | nsubj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 me | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 me | cop |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 anxious | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 anxious | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 anxious | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 generous | cc |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 generous | advmod |
| 19 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 anxious | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 grass | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 grass | cop |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 grass | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 grass | nmod:poss |
| 24 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 grass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | about Wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Goat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | anxious | with your grass | tree rules |
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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