The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox, sentence 11
"Who taught you to divide so fairly?" he asked pleasantly.
Who acts: Ass · What happens: teach, divide, ask · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass), 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 | _ | 3 taught | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 taught | nsubj |
| 3 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 taught | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 divide | mark |
| 6 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 taught | xcomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 fairly | advmod |
| 8 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 6 divide | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 taught | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 taught | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taught | parataxis |
| 13 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 12 asked | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other in a quote | past | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | divide in a quote | to-infinitive | fairly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Ass | pleasantly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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