Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 104

A CAT, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing dressed himself up as a physician, and, taking his cane and a bag of instruments becoming his profession, went to call on them.

Who acts: Birds, instruments, CAT · What happens: ail, dress up, take, become, go, call · To what, where: hearing, Dog, cane, profession · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Birds, instruments, CAT), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 CAT	det
2	CAT	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 went	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hearing	punct
4	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 CAT	appos
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 ailing	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Birds	det
7	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ailing	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 aviary	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 aviary	det
10	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 aviary	amod
11	aviary	aviary	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Birds	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ailing	aux
13	ailing	ail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hearing	acl
14	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 ailing	xcomp
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 dressed	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 dressed	compound:prt
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 physician	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 physician	det
19	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dressed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 taking	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 taking	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 taking	punct
23	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 ailing	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 cane	nmod:poss
25	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 taking	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bag	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bag	det
28	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cane	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 instruments	case
30	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bag	nmod
31	becoming	become	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 instruments	acl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 profession	nmod:poss
33	profession	profession	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 becoming	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 CAT	punct
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	to	to	PART	_	37 call	mark
37	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 went	xcomp
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 call	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ail	past · progressive	the Birds in a certain aviary	hearing not said here		tree rules
2	dress up	participle	the Birds in a certain aviary not said here	Dog	as a physician	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	take	gerund	the Birds in a certain aviary not said here	Dog's cane and a bag of instruments		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cane=Theme
4	become	gerund	instruments not said here	Dog's profession		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient profession=Result
5	go	past	a CAT			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	call	to-infinitive	a CAT not said here		on Birds = bird	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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