Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 33
A Sparrow upbraided her and said, “Where now is thy remarkable swiftness of foot?
Who acts: Sparrow · What happens: upbraid, say, be · To what, where: Hare, remarkable swiftness · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sparrow), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Sparrow | det |
| 2 | Sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 upbraided | nsubj |
| 3 | upbraided | upbraid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 upbraided | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 upbraided | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swiftness | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 swiftness | punct |
| 9 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 now | advmod |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 swiftness | advmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 swiftness | cop |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 swiftness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 swiftness | amod |
| 14 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 foot | case |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swiftness | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 upbraided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | upbraid | past | a Sparrow | Hare | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | a Sparrow not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | thy remarkable swiftness | now | of foot | tree rules |
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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