Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 69
“I am very middling,” replied the Lion, “but why do you stand without?
Who acts: middling, you · What happens: be, reply, stand · To what, where: middling, Lion · 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 (middling, you), 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 middling | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 middling | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 middling | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 middling | advmod |
| 5 | middling | middling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 middling | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 middling | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 10 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stand | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 stand | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 stand | cc |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 stand | advmod |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 stand | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 stand | nsubj |
| 17 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | conj |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 stand | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | middling | middling | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | middling | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lion=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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