Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 24
Jupiter replied, “It is lest we should seem to covet the honour for the fruit.”
Who acts: Jupiter, It · What happens: reply, be, covet · To what, where: honour · 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 (Jupiter, It), 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 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seem | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 seem | punct |
| 5 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seem | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seem | cop |
| 7 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 10 seem | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 seem | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 seem | aux |
| 10 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 covet | mark |
| 12 | covet | covet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seem | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 honour | det |
| 14 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 covet | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 fruit | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fruit | det |
| 17 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 covet | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Jupiter | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | should · present | It | seem property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | covet in a quote | to-infinitive | the honour | for the fruit | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot honour=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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