Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 88

But I can’t think that you, who refuse me a little matter now, will by and by confer on me a greater benefit.”

Who acts: I · What happens: not think, refuse · To what, where: me

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 (I), 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	_	5 think	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 think	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 refuse	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 refuse	nsubj
10	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 think	parataxis
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 refuse	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 matter	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 matter	amod
14	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 refuse	obj
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 refuse	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 will	punct
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 refuse	advcl
18	by	by	ADP	_	17 will	flat
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 benefit	cc
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 confer	case
21	confer	confer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 benefit	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 confer	nmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 benefit	det
25	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 benefit	amod
26	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 refuse	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	can	I					that you	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	refuse	present		me			now		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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