The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Camel, sentence 7
At last, when one of his huge feet came within an inch of King Lion's nose, the animals were so disgusted that they set upon the Camel in a rage and drove him out into the desert.
Who acts: one, animals · What happens: come, disgust, set, drive out · To what, where: last, animals, rage, Camel, desert
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 (one, animals), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 came | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 came | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 came | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feet | amod |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 inch | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 inch | det |
| 13 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 nose | case |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Lion | compound |
| 16 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 nose | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Lion | case |
| 18 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 inch | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 disgusted | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 animals | det |
| 21 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 disgusted | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 disgusted | aux:pass |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 disgusted | advmod |
| 24 | disgusted | disgust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 came | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 set | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 set | nsubj |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 disgusted | advcl |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 Camel | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Camel | det |
| 30 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 rage | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 rage | det |
| 33 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 drove | cc |
| 35 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 set | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 drove | obj |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 drove | compound:prt |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 desert | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 desert | det |
| 40 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 drove | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | one of Camel's huge feet | last | within a inch of King Lion's nose | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 2 | disgust | past · passive | the animals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | set | past | animals = animal | a rage | upon the Camel | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon camel=Destination | |||
| 4 | drive out | past | animals = animal not said here | Camel | the desert | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme into desert=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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