Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 24

A sudden puff of wind blew off his hat and wig, at which a loud laugh rang forth from his companions.

Who acts: sudden puff, loud laugh · What happens: blow off, ring, puff · To what, where: hat, companions, wind

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sudden puff, loud laugh), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 puff	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 puff	amod
3	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blew	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wind	case
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puff	nmod
6	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 blew	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hat	nmod:poss
9	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blew	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wig	cc
11	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hat	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rang	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 rang	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 laugh	det
16	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 laugh	amod
17	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rang	nsubj
18	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blew	conj
19	forth	forth	ADV	_	18 rang	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 companions	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 companions	nmod:poss
22	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rang	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blow off	past	a sudden puff of wind	puff's hat and wig			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hat=Patient
2	ring	past	a loud laugh		puff's companions	forth property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at which=Location
3	puff			wind			nom puff «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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