Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 11
The Lying Traveler replied, “You seem to me a most mighty king.”
Who acts: Lying Traveler, You · What happens: reply, seem · To what, where: mighty king, Lying Traveler · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lying Traveler, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Traveler | det |
| 2 | Lying | Lying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Traveler | compound |
| 3 | Traveler | Traveler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seem | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 seem | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 seem | nsubj |
| 8 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 seem | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 mighty | advmod |
| 13 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 king | amod |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seem | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Lying Traveler | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seem in a quote | present | You | a mighty king | the Lying Traveler = traveler | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme king=Attribute |
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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