The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Purse, sentence 10

Just then they heard a shout of "Stop, thief!" and looking around, saw a mob of people armed with clubs coming down the road.

Who acts: Travelers, shout, clubs · What happens: hear, stop, look around, see, arm, come down · To what, where: shout, thief, mob, people, road · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Purse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Travelers, shout, clubs), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 heard	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 heard	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shout	det
6	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 Stop	mark
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Stop	punct
9	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 shout	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thief	punct
11	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Stop	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 thief	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 thief	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looking	cc
15	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 Stop	conj
16	around	around	ADV	_	15 looking	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mob	det
20	mob	mob	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 people	case
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 mob	nmod
23	armed	arm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 people	acl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 clubs	case
25	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 armed	obl
26	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 clubs	acl
27	down	down	ADP	_	29 road	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 road	det
29	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 coming	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Travelers = traveler	a shout	then		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shout=Stimulus
2	stop in a quote	infinitive	a shout not said here	thief			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality thief=Eventuality
3	look around	gerund	a shout not said here			around property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	past	Travelers = traveler not said here	a mob of people			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mob=Stimulus
5	arm	participle		people not said here		with clubs	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with club=Theme
6	come down	gerund	clubs not said here	the road			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=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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