The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, sentence 3

One day he heard that some Birds in the neighborhood were ailing and needed a doctor.

Who acts: Cat, Birds · What happens: hear, ail, need · To what, where: doctor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat, Birds), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 ailing	mark
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 Birds	det
7	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ailing	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 neighborhood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 neighborhood	det
10	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Birds	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ailing	aux
12	ailing	ail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 heard	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 needed	cc
14	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 doctor	det
16	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 needed	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hear	past	Cat		day	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	ail	past · progressive	some Birds in the neighborhood			vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	need	past	Cat not said here	a doctor		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=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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