--- title: “Since I cannot sleep,” she said, “on account of your song which, be… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: “Since I cannot sleep,” she said, “on account of your song which, believe me, is sweet as the lyre of Apollo, I shall indulge myself in drinking some nectar which Pallas lately gave me. Who acts: Owl, song, Pallas, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owl, song, Pallas, your), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg21:12:111 # text = “Since I cannot sleep,” she said, “on account of your song which, believe me, is sweet as the lyre of Apollo, I shall indulge myself in drinking some nectar which Pallas lately gave me. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Since since SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 ccomp _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 lyre lyre NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Apollo Apollo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 indulge indulge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 34 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obj _ _ 35 in in SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 37 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 obj _ _ 40 Pallas Pallas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 lately lately ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 43 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **sleep** *in a quote* | can | Owl | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Owl | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **believe** *in a quote* | infinitive | your song | | Owl | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | as the lyre of Apollo; sweet *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **indulge** *in a quote* | shall | Owl | Owl | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **drink** *in a quote* | gerund | Owl *not said here* | some nectar | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=Patient | | 7 | **give** *in a quote* | past | Pallas | some nectar | Owl | | | lately *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient which=Theme | | 8 | **account** *in a quote* | | | your song | | | | | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **sing** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/110/) - next →: [sentence 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/112/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/)