Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 11
Away, therefore, with your insolence, for I know well when to go fast, and when to go slow.”
Who acts: I · What happens: know, go · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 7 insolence | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Away | punct |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 7 insolence | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 insolence | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 insolence | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 insolence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | insolence | insolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 insolence | parataxis |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 know | advmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 go | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | ccomp |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 go | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 go | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | conj |
| 22 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 go | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 insolence | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 insolence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | slow property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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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