Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 20
Let that monster go away and I will soon let you know what is the respective strength of a Goat and a Bull.”
Who acts: you, monster, I · What happens: let, go away, know, be · To what, where: monster, you, respective strength · 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 (you, monster, I), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 monster | det |
| 3 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | aux |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 let | advmod |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 strength | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 strength | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 strength | det |
| 16 | respective | respective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 strength | amod |
| 17 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 know | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Goat | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Goat | det |
| 20 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 strength | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Bull | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Bull | det |
| 23 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strength | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | that monster | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go away | infinitive | that monster not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | future | I | you | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | know | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | the respective strength and a Bull | of a Goat | 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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