Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 64

One of the young Larks heard his speech and related it to his mother, inquiring of her to what place they should move for safety.

Who acts: One, Lark, brood · What happens: hear, relate, inquire, move, speak · To what, where: speech, mother, place · 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 (One, Lark, brood), 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	6 heard	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 Larks	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Larks	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Larks	amod
5	Larks	Lark	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 speech	nmod:poss
8	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 related	cc
10	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 related	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 mother	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 related	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 inquiring	punct
16	inquiring	inquire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 related	advcl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 inquiring	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 what	case
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 inquiring	obl
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 what	nsubj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 move	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 move	aux
24	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 place	acl:relcl
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 safety	case
26	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 move	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	One	brood's speech			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus
2	relate	past	One not said here	speech	brood's mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to mother=Recipient
3	inquire speech: other	gerund	One not said here			of bird	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of she=Recipient
4	move	should	Lark	place not said here		for safety	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent place=Theme
5	speak		brood				nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=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: «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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