Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 127

In this dress I will go to the Christmas parties, where all the young fellows will propose to me, but I will toss my head and refuse them every one.”

Who acts: I, young fellows · What happens: go, propose, toss, refuse · To what, where: dress, me, head, fellows

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, young fellows), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 dress	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 dress	det
3	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 parties	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 parties	det
9	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 parties	compound
10	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 propose	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 propose	advmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 fellows	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fellows	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fellows	amod
16	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 propose	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 propose	aux
18	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 propose	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 toss	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 toss	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 toss	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 toss	aux
25	toss	toss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	parataxis
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 toss	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 refuse	cc
29	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 toss	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 refuse	obj
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 refuse	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	future	I			this dress	to the Christmas parties	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial_Location
2	propose	future	all young fellows		me			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
3	toss	future	I	my head				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	refuse	present	I not said here	fellows = fellow				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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