The Aesop for Children, The Sick Stag, sentence 3

The Animals heard about the Stag's illness and came to ask after his health.

Who acts: Animals · What happens: hear, come, ask

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Sick Stag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Animals), 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	2 Animals	det
2	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	8 illness	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Stag	det
6	Stag	Stag	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 illness	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Stag	case
8	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 ask	mark
12	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	xcomp
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 health	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 health	nmod:poss
15	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ask	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the Animals		about the Stag's illness	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about illness=Stimulus
2	come	past	the Animals not said here			tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the Animals not said here	after Stag's health		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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