Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 56
“Why,” he replied, “I am in need of immediate help, and he is wont to give his good gifts very slowly.”
Who acts: Mercury · What happens: reply, be, give, gift · To what, where: need, good gifts · 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 (Mercury), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 replied | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 need | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 need | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 need | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 need | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 need | case |
| 12 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 help | case |
| 14 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 help | amod |
| 15 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 need | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wont | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wont | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wont | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wont | cop |
| 20 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 give | mark |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wont | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gifts | amod |
| 25 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 give | obj |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 slowly | advmod |
| 27 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 22 give | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Mercury | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Mercury | need | of immediate help | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Mercury | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | Mercury not said here | Mercury's good gifts | slowly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | |||
| 5 | gift in a quote | Mercury | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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