The Aesop for Children, Two Travelers and a Bear, sentence 7
"It looked just as if that Bear whispered in your ear," he said. "
Who acts: It, Bear · What happens: look, whisper, say · To what, where: ear · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Two Travelers and a Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Bear), 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 looked | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 as | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 whispered | mark |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 Bear | det |
| 8 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 whispered | nsubj |
| 9 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 ear | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ear | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whispered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | past | It | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | that Bear | your ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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