Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 106
Who would chirp you to sleep, or call for you the covey of answering birds?”
Who acts: covey · What happens: chirp, sleep, call, answer · To what, where: you, covey, birds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (covey), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 chirp | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 chirp | aux |
| 3 | chirp | chirp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 chirp | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sleep | mark |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chirp | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 call | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 call | cc |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chirp | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 call | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 covey | det |
| 13 | covey | covey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 answering | mark |
| 15 | answering | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 covey | acl |
| 16 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 answering | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 chirp | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 chirp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chirp | would | you | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | call | infinitive | the covey | for you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | gerund | the covey not said here | birds | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality |
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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