The Aesop for Children, The Oak and the Reeds, sentence 11
As the Reeds spoke a great hurricane rushed out of the north.
Who acts: Reeds, great hurricane · What happens: speak, rush out · To what, where: great hurricane, north · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oak and the Reeds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reeds, great hurricane), 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 spoke | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Reeds | det |
| 3 | Reeds | Reed | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hurricane | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hurricane | amod |
| 7 | hurricane | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obj |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hurricane | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 north | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 north | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 north | det |
| 12 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rushed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the Reeds | a great hurricane | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rush out | participle | a great hurricane not said here | the north | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme north=Trajectory |
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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