Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 127
To this he replied, “Your handling and mine are very different things.
Who acts: Sheep, Your · What happens: reply, be, handle · To what, where: handling, different things · 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 (Sheep, Your), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 replied | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 handling | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 handling | punct |
| 7 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 handling | nmod:poss |
| 8 | handling | handling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 things | cc |
| 10 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 things | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 things | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 different | advmod |
| 13 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 replied | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Sheep | Your handling | to this | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Sheep | different things | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | handle in a quote | Your | nom handling «act transitive»: poss=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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