Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 111

After a time he observed that the Elephant shook his ears very often, and he inquired what was the matter and why his ears moved with such a tremor every now and then.

Who acts: courage, Elephant, ears · What happens: observe, shake, inquire, be, move · To what, where: ears, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courage, Elephant, ears), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 observed	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 observed	nsubj
5	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 shook	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Elephant	det
8	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 shook	nsubj
9	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 observed	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ears	nmod:poss
11	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shook	obj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 often	advmod
13	often	often	ADV	_	9 shook	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 inquired	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 inquired	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 inquired	nsubj
17	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 observed	conj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 matter	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 matter	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 matter	det
21	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 inquired	ccomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 moved	cc
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	26 moved	advmod
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 ears	nmod:poss
25	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 moved	nsubj
26	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 inquired	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 tremor	case
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 tremor	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tremor	det
30	tremor	tremor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 moved	obl
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 moved	conj
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 moved	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 then	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 now	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	observe	past	courage		time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	shake	past	the Elephant	courage's ears		often property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
3	inquire speech: other	past	courage				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		the matter			tree rules
5	move	past	courage's ears		now	with such tremor	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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