The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog, sentence 3
"What are _you_ afraid of?" asked a young Frog.
Who acts: young Frog · What happens: be, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 afraid | obl |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 What | cop |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 afraid | nsubj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 asked | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 of | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 of | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 afraid | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Frog | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Frog | amod |
| 14 | Frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a young Frog | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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