Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 54

When the Satyr asked the reason for this, he told him that he did it to warm his hands because they were so cold.

Who acts: Satyr, hands · What happens: ask, tell, do, warm, be · To what, where: reason, Ass, hands · 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 (Satyr, hands), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 asked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Satyr	det
3	Satyr	Satyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reason	det
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 reason	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 did	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 did	nsubj
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 did	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 warm	mark
18	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 did	xcomp
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 warm	obj
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 cold	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cold	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cold	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 cold	advmod
25	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 warm	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Satyr	the reason		for this	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	Satyr		Ass		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	do	past	Satyr	reason			tree rules
4	warm	to-infinitive	Satyr not said here	Satyr's hands			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
5	is	past	hands = hand			cold property	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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