Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 49
Get down, you young scapegrace, and let the old man rest his weary limbs.”
Who acts: you, old man · What happens: get down, scapegrace, let, rest · To what, where: old man, weary limbs
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, old 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Get | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 scapegrace | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 scapegrace | nsubj |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scapegrace | amod |
| 6 | scapegrace | scapegrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Get | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obj |
| 13 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 15 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 limbs | amod |
| 16 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rest | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | imperative | you not said here | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | scapegrace | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | the old man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rest | infinitive | the old man not said here | man's weary limbs | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location limb=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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