The Aesop for Children, The Rat and the Elephant, sentence 3
As Mr. Rat walked along--he kept mostly to the ditch--he noticed a great commotion up the road, and soon a grand procession came in view.
Who acts: Rat, grand procession · What happens: walk, keep, notice, come · To what, where: ditch, great commotion, view
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rat and the Elephant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rat, grand procession), 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 walked | mark |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rat | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 noticed | advcl |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 walked | advmod |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 kept | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kept | nsubj |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 9 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 12 ditch | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ditch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ditch | det |
| 12 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 noticed | nsubj |
| 15 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 commotion | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 commotion | amod |
| 18 | commotion | commotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 noticed | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 road | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 road | det |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 commotion | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 came | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 came | cc |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 came | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 procession | det |
| 26 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 procession | amod |
| 27 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | nsubj |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 noticed | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 view | case |
| 30 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Rat Mr. | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | Rat | the ditch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ditch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | notice | past | Rat | a great commotion | up the road | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer commotion=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | come | past | a grand procession | view | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in view=Location |
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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