Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 65
The Ants inquired of him, “Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?”
Who acts: Ants, you · What happens: inquire, not treasure up · To what, where: food · 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 (Ants, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ants | det |
| 2 | Ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 inquired | nsubj |
| 3 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 inquired | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 treasure | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 treasure | punct |
| 8 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 treasure | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 treasure | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 treasure | nsubj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 treasure | advmod |
| 12 | treasure | treasure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 inquired | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 treasure | compound:prt |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 treasure | obj |
| 15 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 summer | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 summer | det |
| 17 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 treasure | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 inquired | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | the Ants | of Grasshopper | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not treasure up in a quote | past · do-support | you | food | summer | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=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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