The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 21
A great crowd of people ran out to get a closer look at the strange sight.
Who acts: great crowd · What happens: run out, get · To what, where: closer look, strange sight
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 (great crowd), 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 crowd | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crowd | amod |
| 3 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crowd | nmod |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 ran | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ran | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 look | det |
| 11 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 look | amod |
| 12 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 sight | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sight | det |
| 15 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sight | amod |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run out | past | a great crowd of people | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | a great crowd of people not said here | a closer look | the strange sight | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at sight=Asset |
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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