The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 3

Now her weird "hoo-hoo-hoo-oo-oo" echoes through the quiet wood, and she begins her hunt for the bugs and beetles, frogs and mice she likes so well to eat.

Who acts: weird hoo oo oo, oo · What happens: echo, begin, like, eat · To what, where: quiet wood, hunt, mice

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Owl and the Grasshopper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weird hoo oo oo, oo), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 weird	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 weird	nmod:poss
3	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 oo	amod
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 hoo	punct
5	hoo	hoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hoo	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hoo	punct
7	hoo	hoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 oo	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 hoo	punct
9	hoo	hoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hoo	appos
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hoo	punct
11	oo	oo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 oo	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 oo	punct
13	oo	oo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 echoes	nsubj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 oo	punct
15	echoes	echo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	through	through	ADP	_	19 wood	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wood	det
18	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wood	amod
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 echoes	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 begins	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 begins	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 begins	nsubj
23	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 echoes	conj
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hunt	nmod:poss
25	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 begins	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 bugs	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bugs	det
28	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 begins	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 beetles	cc
30	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bugs	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 frogs	punct
32	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bugs	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mice	cc
34	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bugs	conj
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 likes	nsubj
36	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 mice	acl:relcl
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 well	advmod
38	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 likes	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 eat	mark
40	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 well	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 echoes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	echo	present	weird hoo oo oo		the quiet wood		vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Location
2	begin	present	oo	light's hunt		for the bugs and beetles and frogs and mice	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Eventuality
3	like	present	oo	mice not said here		well property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mouse=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive	oo not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «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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