Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 110
The Bull replied, “I did not know you had come, and I shall not miss you when you go away.”
Who acts: Bull, you · What happens: reply, not know, come, not miss, go away · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bull | det |
| 2 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 know | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 miss | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 miss | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 miss | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 miss | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 miss | advmod |
| 18 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 know | parataxis |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 miss | obj |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 go | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 miss | advcl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 go | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Bull | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | the Bull = bull | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past · perfect | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not miss in a quote | shall | the Bull = bull | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | go away in a quote | present | you | away 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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