The Aesop for Children, The Two Pots, sentence 4
"It would take so little to break me," he said. "
Who acts: It, he · What happens: take, break, say · To what, where: little, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Pots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, he), 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 take | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 little | advmod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 break | mark |
| 8 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 little | acl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 break | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | would | It | little | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break in a quote | to-infinitive | me | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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