The Aesop for Children, The Sheep and the Pig, sentence 6
"What makes you squeal like that?" asked one of the Sheep. "
Who acts: you · What happens: make, squeal, ask · To what, where: you, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Sheep and the Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 makes | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | squeal | squeal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 squeal | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | conj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 asked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Sheep | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sheep | det |
| 14 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | squeal in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | like that | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | one of the Sheep | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=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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