Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 85

His yelling soon attracted other street dogs, who came up to him and inquired how he had enjoyed his supper.

Who acts: yelling, other street dogs, care · What happens: attract, come up, inquire, enjoy, yell · To what, where: other street dogs, care, supper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yelling, other street dogs, care), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 yelling	nmod:poss
2	yelling	yelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attracted	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 attracted	advmod
4	attracted	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dogs	amod
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dogs	compound
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 attracted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dogs	acl:relcl
11	up	up	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 inquired	cc
15	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 enjoyed	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 enjoyed	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 enjoyed	aux
19	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 inquired	ccomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 supper	nmod:poss
21	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 enjoyed	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 attracted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	attract	past	care's yelling	other street dogs		soon property	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
2	come up	past	other street dogs		care		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	inquire speech: other	past	other street dogs not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	enjoy	past · perfect	care	care's supper			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer supper=Stimulus
5	yell		care				nom yelling «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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