The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 8
When the case came up again, both sides had a large number of witnesses.
Who acts: case, sides · What happens: come up, have · To what, where: large number
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (case, sides), 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 | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 case | det |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 sides | det |
| 9 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 number | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 number | amod |
| 13 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 witnesses | case |
| 15 | witnesses | witness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 number | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the case | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | both sides | a large number of witnesses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
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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