Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 139
The Flea replied, “O my dear sir, pray spare my life, and destroy me not, for I cannot possibly do you much harm.”
Who acts: Flea · What happens: reply, pray, spare, not destroy, not do · To what, where: life, Flea, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flea), 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 Flea | det |
| 2 | Flea | Flea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sir | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sir | punct |
| 6 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 9 sir | discourse |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sir | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sir | amod |
| 9 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pray | punct |
| 11 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 sir | parataxis |
| 12 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pray | xcomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spare | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 destroy | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 destroy | cc |
| 17 | destroy | destroy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 destroy | obj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 destroy | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 do | case |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 do | advmod |
| 25 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 26 do | advmod |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 destroy | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 do | obj |
| 28 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 harm | amod |
| 29 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Flea | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pray in a quote | infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | spare in a quote | infinitive | my life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | |||||
| 4 | not destroy in a quote | infinitive | the Flea = flea | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not do in a quote | can | the Flea = flea | you | possibly property | 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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