Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 93
“Look here,” he said, “this shows what sort of judges you are.”
Who acts: pig, this · What happens: look, say, show, sort · To what, where: sort, judges · 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 (pig, this), 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 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Look | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shows | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 shows | punct |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 shows | nsubj |
| 11 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 13 sort | det |
| 13 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shows | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 judges | case |
| 15 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sort | nmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 are | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 judges | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shows | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | pig | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | show in a quote | present | this | what sort of judges | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sort=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | sort in a quote | judges | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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