The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 1

Once upon a time a severe plague raged among the animals.

What happens: rage · To what, where: severe plague

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plague	det
6	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plague	amod
7	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	nsubj
8	raged	rage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 plague	acl
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 animals	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animals	det
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 raged	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rage	participle		a severe plague not said here				among the animals	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among animal=Location

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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