Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 102
“Death” immediately appeared in answer to his summons and asked for what reason he had called him.
Who acts: Death · What happens: appear, ask, call · To what, where: answer, reason, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Death | punct |
| 2 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Death | punct |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 answer | case |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 summons | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 summons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | summons | summon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 answer | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 what | case |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 asked | obl |
| 15 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 called | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 reason | acl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 called | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Death | answer to death's summons | immediately property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in answer=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Death not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | past · perfect | death | reason not said here | man | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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