The Aesop for Children, The Mule, sentence 2
He was feeling very vigorous indeed, and pranced around loftily, holding his head high.
Who acts: Mule · What happens: feel, prance, hold
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mule. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mule), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 feeling | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 feeling | aux |
| 3 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 vigorous | advmod |
| 5 | vigorous | vigorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feeling | xcomp |
| 6 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 vigorous | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pranced | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pranced | cc |
| 9 | pranced | prance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 feeling | parataxis |
| 10 | around | around | ADV | _ | 11 loftily | advmod |
| 11 | loftily | loftily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pranced | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 holding | punct |
| 13 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 feeling | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 high | compound |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 holding | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feeling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · progressive | Mule | vigorous property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | prance | participle | loftily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | Mule not said here | high property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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