Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 16

“I will,” said the man, “at once show you the Lion himself.”

Who acts: man · What happens: say, show · To what, where: Lion, you · 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 (man), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 will	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 will	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 will	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 show	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 show	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 show	obl
13	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 show	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Lion	det
16	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 show	obj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 Lion	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	show in a quote	present	the man not said here	the Lion Lion	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient lion=Topic

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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