The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, sentence 5
The Birds peeped out, and Dr. Cat, with much solicitude, asked how they were.
Who acts: Birds · What happens: peep out, ask, be · To what, where: Cat · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Birds | det |
| 2 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 peeped | nsubj |
| 3 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 peeped | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Cat | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Cat | cc |
| 7 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Cat | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Cat | Cat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 peeped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 solicitude | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 solicitude | case |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 solicitude | amod |
| 12 | solicitude | solicitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Cat | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 peeped | parataxis |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 were | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 were | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep out | past | the Birds | Cat Dr. | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | be | past | Birds = bird | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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