Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 11
I shall soon become a large fish fit for the tables of the rich, and then you can catch me again, and make a handsome profit of me.”
Who acts: I, large fish, you, me · What happens: become, fit, catch, make, profit · To what, where: me, handsome profit
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, large fish, you, me), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 become | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 become | advmod |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fish | amod |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fit | nsubj |
| 8 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 tables | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tables | det |
| 11 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fit | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rich | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rich | det |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tables | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 catch | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 catch | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 catch | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 catch | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 catch | aux |
| 20 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 become | parataxis |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 catch | obj |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 catch | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 make | cc |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 catch | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 profit | det |
| 27 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 profit | amod |
| 28 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 profit | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | shall | I | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fit | present | a large fish | for the tables of the rich | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | catch | can | you | me | then; again | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | infinitive | you not said here | a handsome profit of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset profit=Product | ||||
| 5 | profit | me | nom profit «possession intransitive»: of=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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