Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 13
“No, good sir,” replied the Lamb, “I have not yet tasted grass.”
Who acts: good sir · What happens: reply, not taste · To what, where: Lamb, grass · 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 (good sir), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 sir | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sir | amod |
| 5 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lamb | det |
| 10 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tasted | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 tasted | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tasted | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tasted | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 tasted | advmod |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 tasted | advmod |
| 17 | tasted | taste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | conj |
| 18 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tasted | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | good sir | the Lamb | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lamb=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not taste in a quote | present · perfect | good sir = sir | grass | yet | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme grass=Attribute |
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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