Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 57

When the Satyr again inquired the reason, he said that he did it to cool the meat, which was too hot.

Who acts: Satyr, meat · What happens: inquire, say, do, cool, be · To what, where: reason, meat · 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, meat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg21:1142): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 inquired	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Satyr	det
3	Satyr	satyr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inquired	nsubj
4	again	again	ADV	_	5 inquired	advmod
5	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reason	det
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inquired	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 inquired	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 did	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 cool	mark
16	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 did	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 meat	det
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cool	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hot	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 hot	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hot	cop
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 hot	advmod
23	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 meat	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	past	the Satyr	the reason	again		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Satyr				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	past	Satyr	reason			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	cool	to-infinitive	Satyr not said here	the meat			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
5	is	past	the meat			hot 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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