Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 18
I did not ask that; it is his track only I am in search of, not the Lion himself.”
Who acts: I, fear · What happens: not ask, be · To what, where: that, track, search
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, fear), 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 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ask | advmod |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 ask | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 track | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 track | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 track | cop |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 track | nmod:poss |
| 10 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obl |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 search | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 search | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 search | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 search | case |
| 15 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 track | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Lion | case |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Lion | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 Lion | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Lion | det |
| 20 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 search | nmod |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 Lion | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask | past · do-support | I | that | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | fear | Lion's track | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | search | of the Lion Lion | tree rules |
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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