Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 77
She replied, “Alas! my son, which of the gods do you think will pity you?
Who acts: life, you, son · What happens: reply, think, pity · To what, where: son, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (life, you, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pity | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 pity | punct |
| 5 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 8 son | discourse |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Alas | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pity | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 think | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gods | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gods | det |
| 13 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 think | obl |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 think | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 think | nsubj |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 son | acl:relcl |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 pity | aux |
| 18 | pity | pity | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 pity | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | life | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | my son | of the gods | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | |||
| 3 | pity in a quote | future | my son | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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