The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 13
"Look at the old fool," exclaimed one of them. "
Who acts: you · What happens: look, exclaim · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 fool | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fool | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fool | amod |
| 6 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Look | advcl |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 one | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | at the old fool | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fool=Theme | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | you not said here | one of Miller | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=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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