Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 64
A GNAT came and said to a Lion, “I do not in the least fear you, nor are you stronger than I am.
Who acts: GNAT, you · What happens: come, say, be · To what, where: Lion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (GNAT, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 GNAT | det |
| 2 | GNAT | gnat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Lion | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Lion | det |
| 8 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fear | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 fear | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 fear | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fear | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 fear | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fear | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fear | det |
| 16 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 fear | amod |
| 17 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 fear | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stronger | punct |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 stronger | cc |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 stronger | cop |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 stronger | nsubj |
| 23 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 came | parataxis |
| 24 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 26 am | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 am | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 stronger | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a GNAT | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a GNAT not said here | a Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lion=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | strong 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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