Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 36
“Is this,” said the Eagle, “the faithful fulfillment of your promise to me?”
Who acts: this, Eagle, your · What happens: be, say, fulfill, promise · To what, where: promise · 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 (this, Eagle, your), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Is | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Eagle | det |
| 8 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fulfillment | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fulfillment | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fulfillment | det |
| 12 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fulfillment | amod |
| 13 | fulfillment | fulfillment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 promise | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 promise | nmod:poss |
| 16 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fulfillment | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 promise | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 fulfillment | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fulfillment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | this | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Eagle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fulfill in a quote | your promise to me | nom fulfillment «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | promise in a quote | your | to me | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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