Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 38

He inquired of her, “Who art thou?”

Who acts: Fox · What happens: inquire

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 (Fox), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 inquired	nsubj
2	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 inquired	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 art	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 art	punct
7	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 art	nsubj
8	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 inquired	parataxis
9	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 art	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 inquired	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	past	Fox					of woman	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of she=Recipient clause=Topic

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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