The Aesop for Children, The Frog and the Mouse, sentence 3
"Won't you pay me a visit?
Who acts: you · What happens: not pay · To what, where: visit, me
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frog and the Mouse. 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 | _ | 5 pay | punct |
| 2 | Wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pay | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 pay | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | nsubj |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 visit | det |
| 8 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pay | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pay in a quote | future | you | a visit | me | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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