Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 34
Shortly after the nuptials, the Eagle said, “Fly off and bring me back the ostrich you promised me.”
Who acts: Eagle, you · What happens: say, fly off, bring back, promise · To what, where: ostrich, Eagle · 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 (Eagle, you), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 nuptials | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nuptials | det |
| 4 | nuptials | nuptial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shortly | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shortly | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Eagle | det |
| 7 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fly | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fly | punct |
| 11 | Fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 Fly | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bring | cc |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Fly | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 bring | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ostrich | det |
| 18 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 promised | nsubj |
| 20 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ostrich | acl:relcl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 promised | iobj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fly | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Eagle | shortly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fly off in a quote | infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bring back in a quote | infinitive | the ostrich | the Eagle = eagle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination ostrich=Theme | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | you | the ostrich not said here | the Eagle = eagle | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=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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