Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 109
Just as he was about to fly off, he made a buzzing noise, and inquired of the Bull if he would like him to go.
Who acts: bull · What happens: be, fly off, make, inquire, like, go · To what, where: buzzing noise, crest
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bull), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 about | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 about | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 about | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 about | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fly | mark |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 about | xcomp |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 fly | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 about | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 noise | det |
| 13 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noise | compound |
| 14 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 inquired | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 inquired | cc |
| 17 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 made | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Bull | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Bull | det |
| 20 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 inquired | obl |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 like | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 like | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 like | aux |
| 24 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 inquired | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 like | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 like | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bull | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly off | to-infinitive | bull not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past | bull | a buzzing noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product | ||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | participle | bull not said here | of the Bull | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of bull=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | like a condition, not said to happen | would | bull | crest | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | bull not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: «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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