The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, sentence 7
"Tweet, tweet," laughed the Birds. "
Who acts: Tweet · What happens: laugh · To what, where: Birds
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 (Tweet), 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 Tweet | punct |
| 2 | Tweet | Tweet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tweet | punct |
| 4 | tweet | tweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tweet | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tweet | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Birds | det |
| 9 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laughed | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Tweet and tweet | the Birds | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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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