The Aesop for Children, Belling the Cat, sentence 11
"I will say that the plan of the young Mouse is very good.
Who acts: I, plan · What happens: say, be, plan · To what, where: young Mouse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Belling the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, plan), 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 say | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 good | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plan | det |
| 7 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 good | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Mouse | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Mouse | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Mouse | amod |
| 11 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plan | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 good | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 good | advmod |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 say | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | future | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the plan of the young Mouse | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | plan in a quote | the young Mouse | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=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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