The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 16
They had no sooner started out again than a loud shout went up from another company of people on the road.
Who acts: Miller, loud shout · What happens: have, start out, go up · To what, where: company
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miller, loud shout), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sooner | det |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 started | advmod |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 started | compound:prt |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 went | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shout | det |
| 10 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shout | amod |
| 11 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 started | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 company | case |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 company | det |
| 16 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 company | nmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 road | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 road | det |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 people | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Miller | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | start out | past | Miller not said here | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go up | past | a loud shout | another company of people on the road | again | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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