Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 48
Do you see that idle lad riding while his old father has to walk?
Who acts: you, that, old father · What happens: see, riding, have, walk · 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 (you, that, old father), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 riding | nsubj |
| 5 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 riding | amod |
| 6 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 riding | compound |
| 7 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | ccomp |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 has | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 father | amod |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 walk | mark |
| 14 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 has | xcomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | riding | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | respect's old father | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | walk | to-infinitive | respect's old father not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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