Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 90
WHEN MAN first saw the Camel, he was so frightened at his vast size that he ran away.
Who acts: MAN · What happens: see, frighten, run away · To what, where: Camel, MAN, vast size
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 (MAN), 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 | WHEN | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 frightened | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Camel | det |
| 6 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 frightened | aux:pass |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 frightened | advmod |
| 11 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 size | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 size | nmod:poss |
| 14 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 size | amod |
| 15 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 frightened | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 ran | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ran | nsubj |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 size | acl:relcl |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 ran | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | MAN | the Camel | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer camel=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | frighten | past · passive | MAN | MAN's vast size | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | run away | past | MAN | MAN's vast size not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme size=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: «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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