The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, sentence 6

"Yes," said the Grasshoppers, who were very fond of a joke; "it is the dew we drink!

Who acts: Grasshoppers, food, we · What happens: say, be, drink · To what, where: dew · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Grasshoppers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grasshoppers, food, we), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Grasshoppers	det
7	Grasshoppers	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fond	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fond	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fond	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 fond	advmod
12	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Grasshoppers	amod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 joke	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 joke	det
15	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fond	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 dew	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 dew	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dew	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 dew	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dew	det
21	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 drink	nsubj
23	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 dew	acl:relcl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Grasshoppers		of a joke; fond property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	food	the dew		tree rules
4	drink in a quote	present	we	the dew not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dew=Patient

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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