The Aesop for Children, The Frog and the Mouse, sentence 4
I can promise you a good time if you do."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: promise, do · To what, where: you
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 (I, 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 | 3 promise | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 promise | aux |
| 3 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 promise | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promise | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 promise | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | can | I | you | time | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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