The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Camel, sentence 2

His dancing was very clever indeed, and the animals were all highly pleased with his grace and lightness.

Who acts: dancing, animals, Monkey · What happens: be, dance

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Camel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dancing, animals, Monkey), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dancing	nmod:poss
2	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clever	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pleased	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pleased	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animals	det
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pleased	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pleased	cop
12	all	all	ADV	_	14 pleased	advmod
13	highly	highly	ADV	_	14 pleased	advmod
14	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clever	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 grace	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 grace	nmod:poss
17	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pleased	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lightness	cc
19	lightness	lightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grace	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Monkey's dancing	clever, indeed property	tree rules
2	is	past	the animals	with Monkey's grace and lightness; all, highly, pleased property	tree rules
3	dance		Monkey		nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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