The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, sentence 4
"What is it?" he asked very respectfully, "that has given you such beautiful voices?
Who acts: Ass · What happens: be, ask, give · To what, where: heart, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Grasshoppers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass), 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 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 What | acl:relcl |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 respectfully | advmod |
| 10 | respectfully | respectfully | ADV | _ | 8 asked | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 given | iobj |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voices | amod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voices | amod |
| 19 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 you | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | heart | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Ass | respectfully property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=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.
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