The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 5
"What news?" asked the Cock very calmly.
Who acts: news · What happens: news, ask · To what, where: Cock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news), 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 | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 news | nsubj |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Cock | det |
| 8 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 calmly | advmod |
| 10 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 6 asked | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | news in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | news | the Cock | calmly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cock=Recipient |
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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