Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 30
“Take me,” returned the Kite, “I am much stronger than you are.”
Who acts: you, Kite · What happens: take, return, be · To what, where: Kite
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 (you, 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Kite | det |
| 8 | Kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stronger | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 stronger | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 stronger | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stronger | cop |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 stronger | advmod |
| 14 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 Take | parataxis |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 are | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 are | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stronger | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Kite | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 2 | return | past | you not said here | the Kite | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kite=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Kite | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | does in a quote | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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