The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 7

When the Mother Lark returned with food for them, they told her what they had heard.

Who acts: Mother Lark, friends · What happens: return, tell, hear · To what, where: Lark · 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 (Mother Lark, friends), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	5 returned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lark	det
3	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Lark	compound
4	Lark	Lark	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 returned	nsubj
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	advcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 returned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 heard	obj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 told	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	the Mother Lark		with food; for friends = friend	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	friends = friend	Lark		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hear	past · perfect	friends = friend			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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