Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 110
“By no means,” replied the Fox; “pray do not molest them.”
Who acts: no, Fox · What happens: mean, reply, not molest · To what, where: flies · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (no, Fox), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 4 means | mark |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fox | det |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 molest | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 molest | punct |
| 12 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 molest | aux |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 molest | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 molest | advmod |
| 15 | molest | molest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 molest | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 molest | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | no | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Fox | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not molest in a quote | infinitive · do-support | flies = fly | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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