Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 138
How then shall I be able to find you, when the day of payment comes?”
Who acts: I, able · What happens: be, find, come · To what, where: you
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 (I, able), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 able | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 able | advmod |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 able | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 comes | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 find | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 comes | punct |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 comes | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 comes | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 payment | case |
| 15 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 day | nmod |
| 16 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 comes | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | I | then | able property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come | present | able | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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