Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 105

His Mother exclaimed: “My son, I am afraid that you are not only blind, but that you have lost your sense of smell.”

Who acts: Mother, son, you, your · What happens: exclaim, be, not be, lose, sense · To what, where: sense, smell · 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 (Mother, son, you, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 Mother	nmod:poss
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exclaimed	nsubj
3	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 exclaimed	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 afraid	punct
6	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 afraid	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 son	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 afraid	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 afraid	cop
11	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 exclaimed	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 blind	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 blind	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 blind	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 blind	advmod
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 blind	advmod
17	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 afraid	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lost	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 lost	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 lost	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 lost	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lost	aux
23	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 afraid	conj
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sense	nmod:poss
25	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lost	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 smell	case
27	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sense	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 afraid	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	driver's Mother			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	My son		afraid property	tree rules
3	not is in a quote	present	you		blind property	tree rules
4	lose in a quote	present · perfect	you	your sense of smell		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Eventuality
5	sense in a quote		your	smell		nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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