Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 100

The Lion inquired why he went off so abruptly without a word of salutation to his host, who had not given him any cause for offense.

Who acts: Lion · What happens: inquire, go off, not give, word · To what, where: host, Lion, salutation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion), 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 Lion	det
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 inquired	nsubj
3	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 went	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 inquired	ccomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 went	compound:prt
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 abruptly	advmod
9	abruptly	abruptly	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 word	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 word	det
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 salutation	case
14	salutation	salutation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 word	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 host	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 host	nmod:poss
17	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 given	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 given	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 given	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 given	advmod
22	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 host	acl:relcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 given	iobj
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 cause	det
25	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 given	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 offense	case
27	offense	offense	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cause	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	past	the Lion				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go off	past	Lion			without a word of salutation; to Lion's host; abruptly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	not give	past · perfect · passive		Lion's host	Lion		tree rules
4	word			salutation			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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