The Aesop for Children, Belling the Cat, sentence 12

But let me ask one question: Who will bell the Cat?"

Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, ask, bell · To what, where: me, one question

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 (you, me), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 let	cc
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 question	nummod
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 bell	punct
8	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 bell	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bell	aux
10	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Cat	det
12	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bell	appos
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	me not said here	one question	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
3	bell	future			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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