The Aesop for Children, The Bundle of Sticks, sentence 3

One day when the quarreling had been much more violent than usual and each of the Sons was moping in a surly manner, he asked one of them to bring him a bundle of sticks.

Who acts: quarreling violent, discord · What happens: quarrel, be, mope, ask, bring · To what, where: surly manner, one, bundle, discord · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quarreling violent, discord), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 asked	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 moping	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 violent	det
5	quarreling	quarrel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 violent	amod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 violent	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 violent	cop
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 violent	advmod
10	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 moping	nsubj
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 usual	case
12	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 violent	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 each	cc
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 violent	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Sons	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sons	det
17	Sons	Son	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 each	nmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 moping	aux
19	moping	mope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 day	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 manner	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 manner	det
22	surly	surly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 manner	amod
23	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 moping	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 asked	nsubj
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 asked	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 one	nmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 bring	mark
31	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 asked	ccomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bring	obj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bundle	det
34	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bring	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 sticks	case
36	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bundle	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quarrel	gerund							vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past · perfect						than usual; violent property	tree rules
3	mope	past · progressive	the quarreling violent			a surly manner			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	ask speech: ask	past	discord	one of Sons			day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
5	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive		a bundle of sticks	discord				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bundle=Theme

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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