The Aesop for Children, The Bat and the Weasels, sentence 14

"What," cried the Bat, "I, a Bird!

Who acts: I · What happens: cry, bird · To what, where: Bat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bat and the Weasels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	5 cried	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Bat	det
7	Bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Bird	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Bird	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 Bird	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Bird	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Bird	det
13	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		the Bat					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Topic
2	bird in a quote		I						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: «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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