Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 76
The Cock, suspecting his civilities, said: “Sir, I wish you would do me the favour of going around to the hollow trunk below me, and waking my porter, so that he may open the door and let you in.”
Who acts: Cock, you, favour · What happens: suspect, say, wish, do, go around, wake · To what, where: civilities, Sir, favour, Cock, hollow trunk, porter · 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 (Cock, you, favour), 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 | 2 Cock | det |
| 2 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 suspecting | punct |
| 4 | suspecting | suspect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Cock | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 civilities | nmod:poss |
| 6 | civilities | civility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 suspecting | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cock | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sir | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sir | punct |
| 11 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wish | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wish | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 wish | nsubj |
| 14 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wish | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | iobj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 favour | det |
| 20 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 going | mark |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 favour | acl |
| 23 | around | around | ADV | _ | 22 going | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 trunk | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 trunk | det |
| 26 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 trunk | amod |
| 27 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 going | obl |
| 28 | below | below | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 trunk | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 waking | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 waking | cc |
| 32 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 porter | nmod:poss |
| 34 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 waking | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 open | punct |
| 36 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 40 open | mark |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 so | fixed |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 open | nsubj |
| 39 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 open | aux |
| 40 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 waking | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 door | det |
| 42 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 open | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 let | cc |
| 44 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 open | conj |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 let | obj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 let | compound:prt |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 waking | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 waking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect | gerund | the Cock not said here | Cock's civilities | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent civility=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Cock | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | the Cock = cock | Sir | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | would | you | the favour | the Cock = cock | tree rules | |||
| 5 | go around in a quote | gerund | the favour not said here | the hollow trunk below me | around property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to trunk=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | wake in a quote | gerund | the Cock not said here | my porter | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent porter=Patient | ||||
| 7 | open in a quote | may | Cock | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 8 | let in in a quote | infinitive | Cock not said here | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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