The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 8
"Oho, what have we here?" they cried. "
Who acts: Miller · What happens: have, cry · To what, where: we · 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 (Miller), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Oho | oho | INTJ | _ | 5 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 have | obj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | we | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Miller | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that 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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