The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Monkey, sentence 2

This he did so well, with a thousand funny capers and grimaces, that the Animals were carried entirely off their feet with enthusiasm, and then and there, elected him their king.

Who acts: This, thousand funny capers · What happens: do, carry, elect · To what, where: Animals, feet, Monkey

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Monkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, thousand funny capers), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 did	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 did	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 capers	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 capers	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thousand	det
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 capers	nummod
10	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 capers	amod
11	capers	caper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grimaces	cc
13	grimaces	grimace	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 capers	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carried	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 carried	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Animals	det
17	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 carried	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 carried	aux:pass
19	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 capers	acl
20	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	19 carried	advmod
21	off	off	ADP	_	23 feet	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 carried	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 enthusiasm	case
25	enthusiasm	enthusiasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carried	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 elected	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 elected	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 elected	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 there	cc
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 then	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 elected	punct
32	elected	elect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 elected	obj
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 king	nmod:poss
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 elected	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	This				well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry	past · passive	thousand funny capers and grimaces not said here	the Animals	Animals's feet		with enthusiasm; entirely property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme off foot=Initial_Location
3	elect	past	This not said here	Monkey		then		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme king=Attribute

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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