Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 65

One day an old hound said to him: “Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself?

Who acts: old hound, Dog · What happens: say, make, exhibit · To what, where: Dog, exhibition, yourself · 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 (old hound, Dog), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl:unmarked
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hound	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hound	amod
5	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct
11	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 make	advmod
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 make	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 make	nsubj
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 exhibition	det:predet
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 exhibition	det
17	exhibition	exhibition	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 yourself	case
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 exhibition	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	a old hound		Dog	day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	make in a quote	present · do-support	Dog	such exhibition of yourself			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exhibition=Product
3	exhibit in a quote			yourself			nom exhibition «act transitive»: of=patient

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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