The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Satyr, sentence 4
"Why do you do that?" asked the Satyr.
Who acts: Satyr · What happens: do, ask · To what, where: that, Satyr · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Satyr. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Satyr), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 do | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Satyr | det |
| 11 | Satyr | Satyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · do-support | the Satyr = satyr | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Satyr | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent satyr=Recipient 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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