The Aesop for Children, The Mule, sentence 6

"I was mistaken," he said. "

Who acts: Mule · What happens: be, say · 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 (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	_	4 mistaken	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 mistaken	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mistaken	cop
4	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mistaken	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 mistaken	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Mule					mistaken 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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