Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 25

But said Minerva, “Let anyone say what he will the olive is more dear to me on account of its fruit.”

Who acts: Minerva, anyone · What happens: say, let, be, account · To what, where: anyone, Minerva, account, fruit · 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 (Minerva, anyone), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 said	cc
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Minerva	Minerva	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
6	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 Let	obj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Let	xcomp
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 dear	nsubj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dear	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 dear	aux
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 olive	det
13	olive	olive	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dear	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 dear	cop
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 dear	advmod
16	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	ccomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 dear	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 account	case
20	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dear	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 fruit	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 fruit	nmod:poss
23	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 account	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Minerva					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		anyone				tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	anyone not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	future			Minerva	account of olive's fruit	dear property	tree rules
5	account in a quote			olive's fruit				nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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