Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 105

He knocked at the door and inquired of the inmates how they all did, saying that if they were ill, he would be happy to prescribe for them and cure them.

Who acts: Dog, Cat · What happens: knock, inquire, do, say, be, prescribe · To what, where: Cat · 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 (Dog, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 inquired	cc
7	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knocked	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 inmates	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 inmates	det
10	inmates	inmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 inquired	obl
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 did	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 did	nsubj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 did	advmod
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 inmates	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saying	punct
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 knocked	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 ill	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 ill	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ill	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ill	cop
21	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 happy	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ill	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 happy	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 happy	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 happy	cop
26	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 saying	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 prescribe	mark
28	prescribe	prescribe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 happy	xcomp
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 prescribe	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cure	cc
32	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 prescribe	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cure	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	knock	past	Dog		at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
2	inquire speech: other	participle	Dog not said here		of the inmates	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of inmate=Recipient
3	do	past	Cat			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Dog not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Cat		ill property	tree rules
6	is	would	Dog		happy property	tree rules
7	prescribe	to-infinitive	Dog not said here		for Cat	tree rules
8	cure	infinitive	Dog not said here	Cat		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Source

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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