Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 41
“Nay,” replied the other, “keep to your first mode of speech, my friend; what you thought right then, think right now.
Who acts: you · What happens: reply, keep, think · To what, where: other · 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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 mode | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mode | nmod:poss |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 mode | amod |
| 14 | mode | mode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 speech | case |
| 16 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mode | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 friend | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friend | nmod:poss |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mode | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 thought | punct |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 thought | obj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 thought | nsubj |
| 23 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | parataxis |
| 24 | right | right | ADV | _ | 25 then | advmod |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 thought | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 think | punct |
| 27 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | conj |
| 28 | right | right | ADV | _ | 29 now | advmod |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 think | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | you not said here | the other | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | imperative | you not said here | to your first mode of speech and my friend | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past | you | then | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | now | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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