Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 74
The Rose replied, “I indeed, dear Amaranth, flourish but for a brief season!
Who acts: Rose · What happens: reply, flourish · 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 (Rose), 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 Rose | det |
| 2 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flourish | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 flourish | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 flourish | nsubj |
| 7 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 12 flourish | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Amaranth | punct |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Amaranth | amod |
| 10 | Amaranth | Amaranth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 flourish | compound |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flourish | punct |
| 12 | flourish | flourish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 season | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 season | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 season | det |
| 16 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 season | amod |
| 17 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flourish | conj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: express | past | the Rose | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | flourish in a quote | the Rose = rose | indeed 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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