Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 21
He sighed heavily and hastened away as fast as he could run.
Who acts: WIZARD · What happens: sigh, hasten away, run
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WIZARD), 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 | 2 sighed | nsubj |
| 2 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 2 sighed | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hastened | cc |
| 5 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sighed | conj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 hastened | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 fast | advmod |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 hastened | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 run | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 run | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | aux |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fast | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | WIZARD | heavily property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hasten away | participle | WIZARD not said here | away, fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | run | could | WIZARD | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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: «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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