Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 79

When he was quite gone, the other Traveler descended from the tree, and jocularly inquired of his friend what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear.

Who acts: One, other Traveler, appearance · What happens: be, descend, inquire, whisper · To what, where: tree, Bear, ear

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, other Traveler, appearance), 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	_	5 gone	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 descended	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Traveler	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Traveler	amod
9	Traveler	Traveler	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 descended	nsubj
10	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 descended	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 inquired	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 inquired	cc
16	jocularly	jocularly	ADV	_	17 inquired	advmod
17	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 descended	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 friend	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 friend	nmod:poss
20	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 inquired	obl
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 whispered	obj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 Bear	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 Bear	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Bear	det
25	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whispered	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 whispered	aux
27	whispered	whisper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 friend	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 ear	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ear	nmod:poss
30	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whispered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 descended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	One			gone property	tree rules
2	descend	past	the other Traveler		the tree		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Location
3	inquire speech: other	participle	the other Traveler not said here			of One's friend; jocularly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of friend=Recipient
4	is a	past	appearance	the Bear			tree rules
5	whisper speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the Bear	One's ear		tree rules

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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