Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 10
Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, see, love, slave · To what, where: Crane, Stork · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 6 Crane | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Crane | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Crane | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 Crane | det |
| 6 | Crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Stork | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Stork | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Stork | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Stork | det |
| 11 | Stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Crane | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bird | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Stork | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 character | case |
| 16 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 character | amod |
| 17 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bird | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 Crane | parataxis |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 love | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 love | nsubj |
| 23 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 slave | cc |
| 25 | slave | slave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 love | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 father | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 slave | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 mother | cc |
| 30 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 father | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Crane | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | no Crane | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | a Stork | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | love | present | I | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | slave | present | I not said here | for my father and mother | 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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