The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Kite, sentence 4
"Why do you look so woebegone?" asked the Kite.
Who acts: you, Kite · What happens: look, ask · To what, where: woebegone · 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 (you, Kite), 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 look | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 look | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 look | nsubj |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 woebegone | advmod |
| 7 | woebegone | woebegone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Kite | det |
| 12 | Kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present · do-support | you | woebegone | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woebegone=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Kite | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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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