The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 5
When all the animals were gathered together he arose and said:
Who acts: lamb · What happens: gather, arise, say · To what, where: animals · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lamb), 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 | _ | 6 gathered | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 animals | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 animals | det |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gathered | aux:pass |
| 6 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 arose | advcl |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 gathered | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 arose | nsubj |
| 9 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arose | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · passive | all animals | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | lamb | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | lamb not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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