Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 5
She replied, “No, my friend, it is not for the pasture that you invite me, but for yourself, who are in want of food.”
Who acts: She, herbage, you · What happens: reply, not be, invite, be · To what, where: pasture, want · 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 (She, herbage, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 friend | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 friend | punct |
| 5 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 friend | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 friend | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pasture | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pasture | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pasture | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 pasture | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 pasture | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pasture | det |
| 15 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 friend | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 invite | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 invite | nsubj |
| 18 | invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pasture | acl:relcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 invite | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 yourself | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 yourself | cc |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 yourself | case |
| 23 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 replied | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 want | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 want | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 want | cop |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 want | case |
| 28 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 yourself | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 food | case |
| 30 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 want | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | She | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | herbage | for the pasture | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | invite in a quote | present | you | the pasture | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | want | of food | tree rules |
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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