The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 5

One warm summer afternoon as she dozed away in her den in the old oak tree, a Grasshopper nearby began a joyous but very raspy song.

Who acts: Owl, Grasshopper · What happens: doze away, begin · To what, where: den, joyous song

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 (Owl, Grasshopper), 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	4 afternoon	nummod
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 afternoon	amod
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afternoon	compound
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dozed	obl:unmarked
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 dozed	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dozed	nsubj
7	dozed	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 dozed	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 den	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 den	nmod:poss
11	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dozed	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tree	amod
15	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tree	compound
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dozed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Grasshopper	det
19	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 began	nsubj
20	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	21 began	advmod
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dozed	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 song	det
23	joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 song	amod
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 raspy	cc
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 raspy	advmod
26	raspy	raspy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 joyous	conj
27	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 began	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dozed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doze away	past	Owl			Owl's den	afternoon	in the old oak tree; away property	vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	a Grasshopper	a joyous song				nearby property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality

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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