The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Crane, sentence 10
"But what about my reward!" called the Crane anxiously.
Who acts: my · What happens: call, reward · To what, where: reward · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Crane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my), 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 what | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 what | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 reward | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 reward | nmod:poss |
| 6 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 reward | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 reward | punct |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 reward | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Crane | det |
| 11 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 12 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 11 Crane | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | my reward not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reward in a quote | my | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=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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