The Aesop for Children, The Tortoise and the Ducks, sentence 16
"Why certainly----" began the Tortoise.
What happens: begin · To what, where: Tortoise
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Tortoise and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 began | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 certainly | advmod |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 began | advmod |
| 4 | ---- | ---- | PUNCT | _ | 3 certainly | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tortoise | det |
| 8 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Tortoise | certainly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=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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