Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 29
“I seek,” she replied, “a mate suitable for me, and am not able to find one.”
Who acts: Kite · What happens: seek, reply, not be, find · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kite), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seek | nsubj |
| 3 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seek | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 suitable | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 suitable | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mate | det |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suitable | obl |
| 12 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 suitable | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 able | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 able | cc |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 able | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 able | advmod |
| 19 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seek | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 find | mark |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 able | xcomp |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 find | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek in a quote | present | Kite | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Kite | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
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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