Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 111

You are a capital bird at telling the time of day.

Who acts: You, capital bird · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: capital bird · 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 (You, capital bird), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 bird	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bird	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
4	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	SCONJ	_	7 telling	mark
7	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bird	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 telling	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 day	case
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	You	a capital bird					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	a capital bird not said here				time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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