The Aesop for Children, The Mole and His Mother, sentence 5

So she put a bit of frankincense before him and asked him to tell what it was.

Who acts: Mother, bit · What happens: put, ask, tell, be · To what, where: bit, Mole · 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 (Mother, bit), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 frankincense	case
7	frankincense	frankincense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tell	mark
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	xcomp
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 tell	ccomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 what	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	cop
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	put	past	Mother	a bit of frankincense		before Mole	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bit=Theme before he=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	past	Mother not said here		Mole		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mother not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	bit				tree rules

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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