Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 9
See if I do not prick your neck with my sting.”
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: see, not prick, sting · To what, where: neck
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 (you, I, my), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 prick | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 prick | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 prick | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 prick | advmod |
| 6 | prick | prick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 See | ccomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prick | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sting | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sting | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prick | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not prick a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | your neck | with my sting | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent neck=Patient with sting=Instrument | |||
| 3 | sting | my | nom sting «state 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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