The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Kite, sentence 13
"Is that the Ostrich you talked about?" said the Eagle in disgust.
Who acts: Ostrich, Eagle · What happens: be, say · To what, where: disgust · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Kite. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ostrich, Eagle), 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 | _ | 7 talked | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 talked | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 talked | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ostrich | det |
| 5 | Ostrich | Ostrich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 talked | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 talked | nsubj |
| 7 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 talked | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 talked | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 talked | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Eagle | det |
| 13 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 disgust | case |
| 15 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the Ostrich | about, talk property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Eagle | disgust | 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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