The Aesop for Children, The Frogs and the Ox, sentence 3
The old Frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and sisters what had become of him.
Who acts: old Frog · What happens: miss, ask, become · To what, where: little one, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs and the Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Frog), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Frog | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Frog | amod |
| 3 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 missed | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 missed | advmod |
| 5 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 missed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 missed | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sisters | cc |
| 14 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brothers | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 become | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 become | aux |
| 17 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 become | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | the old Frog | the little one | soon property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the old Frog not said here | Frog's brothers and sisters | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | become | past · perfect | of Frog | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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