Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 15

“No,” exclaimed the Lamb, “I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.”

Who acts: Lamb, milk · What happens: exclaim, not drink, be · To what, where: water, food, Lamb · 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 (Lamb, milk), 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	_	5 exclaimed	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 exclaimed	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Lamb	det
7	Lamb	Lamb	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 exclaimed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drank	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 drank	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 drank	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 drank	advmod
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	13 drank	advmod
13	drank	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 exclaimed	conj
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drank	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 food	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	22 milk	case
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 yet	advmod
18	yet	yet	ADV	_	22 milk	advmod
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 milk	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 mother	case
22	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 food	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 food	cop
24	both	both	CCONJ	_	25 food	cc:preconj
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drank	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 drink	cc
27	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 food	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 food	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	the Lamb				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	not drink in a quote	participle	the Lamb = lamb	water		yet	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present	my mother's milk	food and drink	the Lamb = lamb		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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