Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 93

Supposing that a man was meant, the Monkey answered that he knew him very well and that he was an intimate friend.

Who acts: Monkey, man, Dolphin · What happens: suppose, mean, answer, know, be · To what, where: man, Dolphin, intimate friend · 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 (Monkey, man, Dolphin), 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	Supposing	suppose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 answered	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 meant	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meant	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 meant	aux:pass
6	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Supposing	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Supposing	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Monkey	det
9	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 answered	nsubj
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 knew	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	obj
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 well	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 knew	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 friend	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 friend	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 friend	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 friend	cop
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 friend	det
22	intimate	intimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 friend	amod
23	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knew	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	gerund	the Monkey not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	mean	past · passive		a man		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	answer speech: assert	past	the Monkey			tree rules
4	know	past	man	Dolphin	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	is a	past	Dolphin	a intimate friend		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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