Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 111
“How is this?” said the Hedgehog; “do you not want to be rid of them?”
Who acts: this, you · What happens: be, say, not want · To what, where: this · 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 (this, 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 this | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 this | cop |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 this | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 this | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Hedgehog | det |
| 9 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 want | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 want | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 want | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 want | nsubj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 want | advmod |
| 15 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rid | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 rid | cop |
| 18 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 want | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rid | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 want | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | of flies = fly; rid 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: «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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