The Aesop for Children, The Ants and the Grasshopper, sentence 2
"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter?
Who acts: you · What happens: cry, not store away · To what, where: Ants, surprise, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ants 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 (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 | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Ants | det |
| 7 | Ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 surprise | case |
| 9 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stored | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 stored | punct |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 stored | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 stored | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 stored | nsubj |
| 15 | stored | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | advcl |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 stored | obj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 stored | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 winter | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 winter | det |
| 20 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stored | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the Ants | surprise | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not store away in a quote | present | you | anything | winter | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/34/2/