Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 66
When he reached his den, Mistress Wolf inquired of him why he returned wearied and supperless, so contrary to his wont.
Who acts: Wolf, Mistress · What happens: reach, inquire, weary · To what, where: den, Wolf
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 (Wolf, Mistress), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 inquired | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 den | nmod:poss |
| 5 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 7 | Mistress | Mistress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 inquired | nsubj |
| 8 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mistress | flat |
| 9 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 inquired | obl |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 wearied | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wearied | nsubj |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wearied | aux:pass |
| 15 | wearied | weary | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 inquired | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 supperless | cc |
| 17 | supperless | supperless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wearied | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 contrary | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 contrary | advmod |
| 20 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 inquired | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 wont | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wont | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wont | wont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 contrary | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Wolf | Wolf's den | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent den=Theme | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Mistress | of Wolf | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | weary | past · passive | Wolf | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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