Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 110
Jupiter, disturbed by the noise of their croaking, inquired the cause of their complaint.
Who acts: Jupiter, croaking, Frogs · What happens: disturb, inquire, noise, croak, cause, complain · To what, where: Jupiter, cause, complaint
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jupiter, croaking, Frogs), 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 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 inquired | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 disturbed | punct |
| 3 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Jupiter | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 noise | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 noise | det |
| 6 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disturbed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 croaking | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 croaking | nmod:poss |
| 9 | croaking | croaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noise | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jupiter | punct |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cause | det |
| 13 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 inquired | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 complaint | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 complaint | nmod:poss |
| 16 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cause | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disturb | participle | Jupiter not said here | by the noise of Frogs's croaking | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Jupiter | the cause of Frogs's complaint | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cause=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | noise | Frogs's croaking | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | croak | Frogs = frog | nom croaking «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | cause | Frogs's complaint | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | complain | Frogs = frog | nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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