Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 87
A Fox asked him, “How can you pretend to prescribe for others, when you are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin?”
Who acts: Fox, Frog · What happens: ask, pretend, prescribe, be, heal, wrinkle · To what, where: Frog, own lame gait · 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 (Fox, Frog), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretend | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretend | punct |
| 7 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 pretend | advmod |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 pretend | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 pretend | nsubj |
| 10 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 prescribe | mark |
| 12 | prescribe | prescribe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pretend | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 others | case |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 prescribe | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 unable | punct |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 unable | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 unable | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 unable | cop |
| 19 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pretend | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 heal | mark |
| 21 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 unable | xcomp |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 gait | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gait | amod |
| 24 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gait | amod |
| 25 | gait | gait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heal | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 skin | cc |
| 27 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 skin | amod |
| 28 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gait | conj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretend | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | a Fox | Frog | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pretend in a quote | can | Frog | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | prescribe in a quote | to-infinitive | Frog not said here | for others | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Frog | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | heal in a quote | to-infinitive | Frog not said here | your own lame gait and wrinkled skin | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gait=Patient | ||||
| 6 | wrinkle in a quote | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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