The Aesop for Children, The Quack Toad, sentence 1

An old Toad once informed all his neighbors that he was a learned doctor.

Who acts: old Toad, Toad · What happens: inform, learn, be · To what, where: neighbors, learned doctor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Quack Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Toad, Toad), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Toad	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Toad	amod
3	Toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 informed	nsubj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 informed	advmod
5	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 neighbors	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neighbors	nmod:poss
8	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 informed	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 doctor	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 doctor	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 doctor	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 doctor	det
13	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 doctor	amod
14	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 informed	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 informed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	past	a old Toad	Toad's neighbors	once property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent neighbor=Recipient
2	learn	participle				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Toad	a learned doctor		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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