The Aesop for Children, The Ants and the Grasshopper, sentence 6

"Making music, were you?" they cried. "

Who acts: Ants · What happens: make, be, cry · To what, where: music, you · 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 (Ants), 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	_	2 Making	punct
2	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Making	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Making	punct
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 you	cop
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Making	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Making	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Making	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Making	parataxis
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Making	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Making	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make in a quote	gerund		music	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past		you	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	Ants = ant		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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