Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 130
“And you,” they said, “how many sons have you at a birth?”
Who acts: you, many sons · What happens: say, have · To what, where: birth · 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 (you, many sons), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 you | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sons | amod |
| 12 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 birth | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 birth | det |
| 17 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | many sons | a birth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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