The Aesop for Children, The Astrologer, sentence 11
"What use is it," said another, "to read the stars, when you can't see what's right here on the earth?"
Who acts: you · What happens: use, be, say, read, not see · To what, where: use, another, stars, earth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Astrologer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 it | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 use | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 read | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 read | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 read | mark |
| 13 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stars | det |
| 15 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 read | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 19 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 see | advmod |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 read | conj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 here | nsubj |
| 23 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 here | cop |
| 24 | right | right | ADV | _ | 25 here | advmod |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 see | ccomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 earth | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 earth | det |
| 28 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 here | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 read | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | use | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | another | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | read in a quote | to-infinitive | the stars | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not see in a quote | can | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | the earth | here, right property | 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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