The Aesop for Children, Jupiter and the Monkey, sentence 6

As you can imagine, there was quite a laugh when the Animals saw the ugly flat-nosed, hairless, pop-eyed little creature.

Who acts: you, laugh, Animals · What happens: imagine, be, see, nose · To what, where: ugly hairless eyed little creature

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Jupiter and the Monkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, laugh, Animals), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 imagine	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 imagine	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 imagine	aux
4	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 was	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 imagine	punct
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	parataxis
8	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	10 laugh	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 laugh	det
10	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 saw	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Animals	det
13	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 creature	det
16	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 creature	amod
17	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 nosed	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 flat	punct
19	nosed	nose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ugly	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ugly	punct
21	hairless	hairless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 creature	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hairless	punct
23	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eyed	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 pop	punct
25	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 creature	amod
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 creature	amod
27	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	imagine	can	you			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	be	past	quite laugh		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	the Animals	the ugly hairless eyed little creature		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus
4	nose	participle	the Animals not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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