Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 17
“And pray how do I and these my friends around me seem to you?”
Who acts: truthful Traveler · What happens: pray, seem · To what, where: you
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 (truthful Traveler), 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 | _ | 3 pray | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pray | cc |
| 3 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 seem | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 seem | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 seem | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 friends | cc |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 friends | det |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friends | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 I | conj |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 friends | nmod |
| 13 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pray | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 seem | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray in a quote | present | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | seem in a quote | present · do-support | the truthful Traveler = traveler | you | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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