The Aesop for Children, The Mule, sentence 3
"My father certainly was a full-blooded racer," he said. "
Who acts: father, Mule · What happens: be, say · To what, where: blooded racer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mule. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Mule), 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 | _ | 10 racer | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 racer | nsubj |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 10 racer | advmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 racer | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 racer | det |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 blooded | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
| 9 | blooded | blooded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 racer | amod |
| 10 | racer | racer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 racer | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 racer | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | My father | a blooded racer | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mule | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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