Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 81

The young Crab replied: “Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it.”

Who acts: young Crab, you · What happens: reply, show, promise, walk · To what, where: straight way, young Crab, way · 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 (young Crab, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Crab	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Crab	amod
3	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 replied	nsubj
4	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 true	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 true	punct
7	Quite	quite	ADV	_	8 true	advmod
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 replied	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Mother	punct
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Mother	amod
11	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 true	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 promise	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 promise	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 show	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 show	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 show	aux
17	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 promise	advcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 show	iobj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
20	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 show	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 show	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 promise	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 promise	aux
25	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 replied	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 walk	mark
27	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 promise	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 walk	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 promise	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the young Crab				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	show a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	the straight way	the young Crab = crab		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	future	the young Crab = crab				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	walk not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the young Crab = crab not said here			way	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory

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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