Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 123
“Hardly,” said the Horse, “can I resist kicking you with my heels.”
Who acts: Horse · What happens: say, resist, kick · To what, where: you · 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 (Horse), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hardly | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Horse | det |
| 7 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 resist | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 resist | punct |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 resist | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 resist | nsubj |
| 12 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | kicking | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 resist | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 kicking | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 heels | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heels | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kicking | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Horse | hardly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | resist in a quote | can | the Horse = horse | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kick in a quote | gerund | the Horse = horse not said here | you | with my heels | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with heel=Instrument |
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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