The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 13

When the poor Fox Without a Tail turned around, there arose such a storm of jeers and hooting, that he saw how useless it was to try any longer to persuade the Foxes to part with their tails.

Who acts: poor Fox, Fox, it, jeers · What happens: turn around, arise, hoot, see, be, persuade · To what, where: storm, Foxes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox Without a Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Fox, Fox, it, jeers), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	8 turned	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fox	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Fox	amod
4	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	nsubj
5	Without	without	ADP	_	7 Tail	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Tail	det
7	Tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Fox	nmod
8	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	around	around	ADV	_	8 turned	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 arose	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 arose	expl
12	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	parataxis
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 storm	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 storm	det
15	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arose	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 jeers	case
17	jeers	jeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 storm	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hooting	cc
19	hooting	hoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 storm	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 saw	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 arose	conj
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 useless	advmod
25	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 saw	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 try	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 try	cop
28	to	to	PART	_	29 try	mark
29	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 saw	ccomp
30	any	any	ADV	_	31 longer	advmod
31	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 try	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 persuade	mark
33	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 try	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Foxes	det
35	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 persuade	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 part	mark
37	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 persuade	xcomp
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 tails	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 tails	nmod:poss
40	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 part	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn around	participle	the poor Fox without a Tail			around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	arise	past		such storm of jeers	there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location storm=Theme
3	hoot	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past	Fox			useless property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	is	past	it			long, try property	tree rules
6	persuade not said to happen	to-infinitive		the Foxes			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Patient
7	storm		jeers				nom storm «phenomenon 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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