The Aesop for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise, sentence 2
"Do you ever get anywhere?" he asked with a mocking laugh.
Who acts: you, Hare · What happens: get, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Hare), 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 get | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 get | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 laugh | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 laugh | det |
| 13 | mocking | mocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laugh | compound |
| 14 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · do-support | you | ever | anywhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Hare | with a mocking laugh | 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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