Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 76
The Sculptor replied, “Well, if you will buy these, I’ll fling you that into the bargain.”
Who acts: Sculptor, you · What happens: reply, buy, fling · To what, where: these, you, bargain · 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 (Sculptor, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sculptor | det |
| 2 | Sculptor | Sculptor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fling | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 fling | punct |
| 6 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 16 fling | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Well | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 buy | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 buy | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 buy | aux |
| 11 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Well | advcl |
| 12 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 buy | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Well | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fling | nsubj |
| 15 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fling | aux |
| 16 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 fling | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 bargain | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bargain | det |
| 21 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fling | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 fling | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 fling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Sculptor | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | buy a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | these | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fling in a quote | future | the Sculptor = sculptor | you | the bargain | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme into bargain=Destination |
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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