The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 11
The Master was much alarmed at the strange behavior of the Ass, and calling for help, soon attracted the attention of the servants.
Who acts: servants · What happens: alarm, call, attract, attend · To what, where: Master, strange behavior, attention · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Lap Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 Master | det |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 alarmed | advmod |
| 5 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 behavior | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 behavior | det |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 behavior | amod |
| 9 | behavior | behavior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alarmed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Ass | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ass | det |
| 12 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 behavior | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 calling | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 calling | cc |
| 15 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 alarmed | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 help | case |
| 17 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 calling | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 attracted | punct |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 attracted | advmod |
| 20 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 calling | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 attention | det |
| 22 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 attracted | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 servants | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 servants | det |
| 25 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 attention | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | past · passive | the Master | the strange behavior of the Ass | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | attract | past | the attention of the servants | soon property | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | ||||
| 4 | attend | the servants | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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