The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 14

When the young Larks told their mother what they had heard that day, she said:

Who acts: young Larks, friends, Lark · What happens: tell, hear, say · To what, where: mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Larks, friends, Lark), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Larks	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Larks	amod
4	Larks	lark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	advcl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 heard	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	aux
11	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the young Larks	friends's mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hear	past · perfect	friends = friend		day	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Lark			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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