The Aesop for Children, The Mole and His Mother, sentence 1

A little Mole once said to his Mother:

Who acts: little Mole · What happens: say · To what, where: Mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mole and His Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Mole), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Mole	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Mole	amod
3	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Mother	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Mother	nmod:poss
8	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a little Mole		Mole's Mother			once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient

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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