The Aesop for Children, The Rat and the Elephant, sentence 8
They were so taken up with admiration of the Elephant, that the Rat was not noticed.
What happens: take up, not notice, admire · To what, where: people, Rat, Elephant
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: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 taken | advmod |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 taken | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 admiration | case |
| 7 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Elephant | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Elephant | det |
| 10 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 admiration | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 noticed | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 noticed | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Rat | det |
| 14 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 noticed | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 noticed | aux:pass |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 noticed | advmod |
| 17 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past · passive | people | with admiration of the Elephant | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not notice | past · passive | the Rat | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | admire | the Elephant | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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