Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 86

He replied, “Why, to tell you the truth, I drank so much wine that I remember nothing.

Who acts: care · What happens: reply, tell, drink, remember · To what, where: truth, you, much wine · 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 (care), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 replied	nsubj
2	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
5	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 tell	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tell	mark
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 replied	parataxis
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 truth	det
11	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drank	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 drank	nsubj
14	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wine	amod
17	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drank	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 remember	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 remember	nsubj
20	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wine	acl:relcl
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 remember	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	care			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive		the truth	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic
3	drink in a quote	past	care	much wine		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient
4	remember in a quote	present	care	much wine		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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