The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and His Sons, sentence 5
I do not know the exact spot, but it is there, and you will surely find it.
Who acts: I, spot, you · What happens: not know, be, find · To what, where: exact spot, spot
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and His Sons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, spot, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spot | det |
| 6 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spot | amod |
| 7 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 there | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 there | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 there | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 there | cop |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 know | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 find | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | aux |
| 17 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 18 find | advmod |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 there | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 find | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | the exact spot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | spot | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | future | you | spot | surely property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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