Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 46

As the conversation began to flag, the Thief yawned terribly and at the same time howled like a wolf.

Who acts: conversation, Thief · What happens: begin, yawn, howl · To what, where: flag

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 (conversation, Thief), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 began	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 conversation	det
3	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 yawned	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 flag	mark
6	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Thief	det
9	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 yawned	nsubj
10	yawned	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	10 yawned	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 howled	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 time	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 howled	obl
17	howled	howl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 yawned	conj
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 wolf	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wolf	det
20	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 howled	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 yawned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the conversation	flag			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Eventuality
2	yawn	past	the Thief			terribly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	howl	participle	the Thief not said here		time	like a wolf	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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