Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 80
The huntsman soon came up with his hounds and inquired of the Woodcutter if he had seen the Fox.
Who acts: huntsman, Woodcutter · What happens: come up, inquire, see · To what, where: Fox
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman, Woodcutter), 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 huntsman | det |
| 2 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hounds | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hounds | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 inquired | cc |
| 10 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Woodcutter | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Woodcutter | det |
| 13 | Woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inquired | obl |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 seen | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 inquired | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Fox | det |
| 19 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the huntsman | with huntsman's hounds; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | participle | the huntsman not said here | of the Woodcutter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of woodcutter=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | see a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Woodcutter | the Fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus |
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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