Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 3

The Mother coming up, and missing one of her sons, inquired of his brothers what had become of him.

Who acts: Mother, brothers · What happens: come up, inquire, become · To what, where: sons

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 (Mother, brothers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mother	det
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Mother	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 coming	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 one	cc
7	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mother	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sons	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sons	nmod:poss
11	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 inquired	punct
13	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sons	acl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 brothers	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brothers	nmod:poss
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 inquired	obl
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 become	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 become	aux
19	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 brothers	acl:relcl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 become	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come up	gerund	the Mother not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	inquire speech: other	participle		Frog's sons not said here	of drinking's brothers	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of brother=Recipient
3	become	past · perfect	drinking's brothers		of drinking	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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