Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 134
But the Fox, interrupting him, said, “And how much more beautiful than you am I, who am decorated, not in body, but in mind.”
Who acts: Fox, you · What happens: interrupt, say, be, decorate · To what, where: Fox · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fox, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fox | det |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 interrupting | punct |
| 5 | interrupting | interrupt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Fox | acl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 interrupting | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fox | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 beautiful | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 beautiful | advmod |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 I | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 I | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 I | cop |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 beautiful | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 decorated | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 decorated | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 decorated | aux:pass |
| 23 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 beautiful | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 body | punct |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 body | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 body | case |
| 27 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 decorated | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 mind | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 mind | cc |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 mind | case |
| 31 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 mind | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | gerund | the Fox not said here | Fox | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | the Fox = fox | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | decorate in a quote | present · passive | in body | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in body=Theme |
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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