The Aesop for Children, The Mice and the Weasels, sentence 4
So a large number of generals and commanders were appointed from among the most eminent Mice.
What happens: appoint · To what, where: large number
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mice and the Weasels. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 appointed | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 number | det |
| 3 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 number | amod |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appointed | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 generals | case |
| 6 | generals | general | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 number | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 commanders | cc |
| 8 | commanders | commander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 generals | conj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 appointed | aux:pass |
| 10 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Mice | case |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 Mice | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mice | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 eminent | advmod |
| 15 | eminent | eminent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Mice | amod |
| 16 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 appointed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | a large number of generals and commanders | from the eminent Mice | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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