Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 11
Look too, at my feathers—they are not the least like those of a Crane.”
Who acts: you, feathers · What happens: look, not be
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 (you, feathers), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Look | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 feathers | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 feathers | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Look | obl |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 those | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 those | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 those | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 those | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 least | det |
| 12 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 those | obl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 those | case |
| 14 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Look | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Crane | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Crane | det |
| 17 | Crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 those | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at my feathers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at feather=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | feathers = feather | like those; of a Crane; the least obl | 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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