The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 11
"Hardly anything," answered the House Dog. "
Who acts: anything · What happens: answer · To what, where: House Dog
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the House Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anything), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 anything | punct |
| 2 | Hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 3 anything | advmod |
| 3 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 anything | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 anything | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dog | det |
| 8 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Dog | compound |
| 9 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | anything | the House Dog | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dog=Eventuality |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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