The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Camel, sentence 8
Shortly afterward, refreshments, consisting mostly of Camel's hump and ribs, were served to the company.
Who acts: refreshments · What happens: consist, serve · To what, where: refreshments, company
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 (refreshments), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 2 afterward | advmod |
| 2 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 4 refreshments | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 afterward | punct |
| 4 | refreshments | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 served | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 consisting | punct |
| 6 | consisting | consist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 refreshments | acl |
| 7 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 11 hump | advmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hump | case |
| 9 | Camel | Camel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hump | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Camel | case |
| 11 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consisting | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ribs | cc |
| 13 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hump | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 refreshments | punct |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 served | aux:pass |
| 16 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 company | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 company | det |
| 19 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 served | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | gerund | refreshments not said here | of Camel's hump and ribs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | serve | past · passive | refreshments | the company | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to company=Recipient |
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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