The Aesop for Children, The Hare and His Ears, sentence 8
"Goodby, neighbor Cricket," he called. "
Who acts: Goodby · What happens: call · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and His Ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goodby), 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 | _ | 2 Goodby | punct |
| 2 | Goodby | Goodby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cricket | punct |
| 4 | neighbor | neighbor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Cricket | amod |
| 5 | Cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Goodby | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Goodby | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Goodby | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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