Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 123
The Hare said to him, “I wish you would act sincerely by me, and show yourself in your true colors.
Who acts: Hare, hillside · What happens: say, wish, act, show · To what, where: hillside · 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 (Hare, hillside), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hare | det |
| 2 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 act | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 act | aux |
| 12 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wish | ccomp |
| 13 | sincerely | sincerely | ADV | _ | 12 act | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 act | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 show | cc |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 wish | conj |
| 19 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 show | iobj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 colors | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 colors | nmod:poss |
| 22 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 colors | amod |
| 23 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 show | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Hare | hillside | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | the Hare = hare | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | act in a quote | would | hillside | by the Hare = hare; sincerely property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | show in a quote | infinitive | the Hare = hare not said here | hillside | in your true colors | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient in color=Topic |
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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