Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 74

On their saying, “Father, what kind of bird is it?” he replied, “To my certain knowledge he is a Daw; but he would like you to think an Eagle.”

Who acts: Father, wings · What happens: be, reply, like, think, say · To what, where: kind, saying, Daw, you, Eagle · 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 (Father, wings), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 saying	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 saying	nmod:poss
3	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 replied	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Father	punct
6	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 replied	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kind	punct
8	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	9 kind	det
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Father	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 bird	case
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kind	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 it	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Father	appos
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 Father	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Father	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 replied	nsubj
17	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Daw	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 Daw	punct
20	To	to	ADP	_	23 knowledge	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 knowledge	nmod:poss
22	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 knowledge	amod
23	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Daw	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 Daw	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Daw	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 Daw	det
27	Daw	daw	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 replied	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 like	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 like	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 like	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 like	aux
32	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 replied	ccomp
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 like	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 think	mark
35	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 like	xcomp
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 Eagle	det
37	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 think	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 like	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		kind			tree rules
2	reply speech: ask	past	Father		wings's saying		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	Father	a Daw		to my certain knowledge	tree rules
4	like in a quote	would	Father	you			tree rules
5	think speech: other not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Father not said here	a Eagle			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot eagle=Theme
6	say		wings = wing				nom saying «communication 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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