Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 113
She smiled, and said: “I know full well, my son, that all you say is true.
Who acts: mother, you, all · What happens: smile, say, know, be · 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, you, all), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smiled | nsubj |
| 2 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smiled | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 know | ccomp |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 full | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smiled | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 true | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 true | mark |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 true | nsubj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 say | nsubj |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 all | acl:relcl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 true | cop |
| 21 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 smiled | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | mother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | mother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | all | true property | tree rules |
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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