Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 79
A CRAB said to her son, “Why do you walk so one-sided, my child?
Who acts: CRAB, son · What happens: say, walk · To what, where: son · 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 (CRAB, son), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 CRAB | det |
| 2 | CRAB | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 son | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walk | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 walk | punct |
| 9 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 walk | advmod |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 walk | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 walk | nsubj |
| 12 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 sided | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sided | nummod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 16 | sided | sided | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 walk | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 child | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 child | nmod:poss |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walk | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | a CRAB | Mother's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | walk in a quote | present · do-support | Mother's son = son | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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