Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 60
I am quite ready; it is you for whom I am waiting.”
Who acts: I, tail · What happens: be, wait · To what, where: you
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 (I, tail), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 ready | advmod |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 you | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 you | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 you | cop |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ready | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 whom | case |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 ready | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 waiting | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 waiting | aux |
| 13 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 whom | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | tail | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait | present · progressive | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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