The Aesop for Children, The Oak and the Reeds, sentence 2

When the wind blew, the great Oak stood proudly upright with its hundred arms uplifted to the sky.

Who acts: wind, great Oak · What happens: blow, stand, uplift · To what, where: hundred arms

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 (wind, great Oak), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 blew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blew	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Oak	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Oak	amod
8	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 stood	nsubj
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	11 upright	advmod
11	upright	upright	ADV	_	9 stood	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 arms	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arms	nmod:poss
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 arms	nummod
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stood	obl
16	uplifted	uplift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 arms	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 sky	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sky	det
19	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 uplifted	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the wind			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	stand	past	the great Oak		with Oak's hundred arms; upright property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	uplift	participle		Oak's hundred arms not said here	to the sky	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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