Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 57
She resolutely said, “I know not whether Jupiter will allot the prize to my son, but this I do know, that he is at least in the eyes of me his mother, the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of all.”
Who acts: laugh, Jupiter, this, Monkey · What happens: say, not know, allot, know, be · To what, where: prize, son, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laugh, Jupiter, this, Monkey), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | resolutely | resolutely | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 9 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 allot | mark |
| 10 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 allot | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 allot | aux |
| 12 | allot | allot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 know | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prize | det |
| 14 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 allot | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 son | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 allot | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 know | cc |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 least | punct |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 least | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 least | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 least | cop |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 least | case |
| 29 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 know | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 eyes | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 eyes | det |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 least | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 eyes | nmod |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 mother | nmod:poss |
| 36 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 me | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dearest | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 dearest | det |
| 39 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 know | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 handsomest | punct |
| 41 | handsomest | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 dearest | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 beautiful | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 beautiful | cc |
| 44 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 45 beautiful | advmod |
| 45 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | parataxis |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 all | case |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 beautiful | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 beautiful | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | laugh | resolutely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present | laugh | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | allot in a quote | future | Jupiter | the prize | my son | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent prize=Theme to son=Goal | |||
| 4 | know in a quote | present · do-support | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Monkey | the eyes of me | least property | 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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