Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 57
He asked him sharply: “Why do you stand there gaping?
Who acts: Dog, Hare · What happens: ask, stand, gape · To what, where: Hare · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog, Hare), 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 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 2 asked | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 stand | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 stand | punct |
| 7 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 stand | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stand | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 stand | nsubj |
| 10 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 stand | advmod |
| 12 | gaping | gape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 stand | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Dog | Hare | sharply property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | stand in a quote | present · do-support | Hare | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | gape in a quote | gerund | Hare not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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