Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 28
“Why,” said the Kite, “do I see you with such a rueful look?”
Who acts: Kite · What happens: say, see · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kite), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Kite | det |
| 7 | Kite | Kite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 look | case |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 look | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 look | det |
| 17 | rueful | rueful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 look | amod |
| 18 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the Kite | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · do-support | the Kite = kite | you | with such rueful look | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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