Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 109

Who will wake you to your daily tasks or tell you when it is time to visit the bird-trap in the morning?”

Who acts: appearance, your · What happens: wake, tell, be, visit, task · To what, where: you, time, bird trap · 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 (appearance, your), 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 wake	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wake	aux
3	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 wake	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 tasks	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tasks	nmod:poss
7	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tasks	amod
8	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wake	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wake	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 time	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 time	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 time	cop
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 visit	mark
17	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 time	acl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 trap	det
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trap	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 bird	punct
21	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 visit	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 morning	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 morning	det
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 visit	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wake	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wake	future		you			to your daily tasks	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive			you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is a	present	appearance	time				tree rules
4	visit	to-infinitive		the bird trap		morning		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Co-Agent
5	task		your					nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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