Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 31

What weight can my blood add to the wool?

Who acts: weight · What happens: add

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 (weight), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 add	obl
2	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 add	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 add	aux
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 blood	nmod:poss
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 add	nsubj
6	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wool	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wool	det
9	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 add	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 add	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	can	weight					to the wool	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to wool=Co-Patient

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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