Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 102

A MOLE, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: “I am sure than I can see, Mother!”

Who acts: I · What happens: say, be, see · To what, where: Mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 MOLE	det
2	MOLE	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blind	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 MOLE	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 creature	det
5	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blind	obl:unmarked
6	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 birth	case
8	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blind	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 said	advmod
11	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 blind	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Mother	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 Mother	nmod:poss
14	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 sure	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 sure	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 sure	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sure	cop
19	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blind	parataxis
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 see	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sure	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Mother	punct
25	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 blind	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 blind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	participle			driver's Mother	once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient
2	is in a quote	present	I			sure property	tree rules
3	see in a quote	can	I	Mother			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus

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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