The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 27
A great uproar among the beasts interrupted him.
Who acts: great uproar · What happens: interrupt · To what, where: Many
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: who acts (great uproar), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 uproar | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 uproar | amod |
| 3 | uproar | uproar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 interrupted | nsubj |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 beasts | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beasts | det |
| 6 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 uproar | nmod |
| 7 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 interrupted | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 interrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | past | a great uproar among the beasts | Many | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/125/27/