Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 50
With this speech he commenced a second fit of yawning and again howled like a wolf, as he had at first.
Who acts: man · What happens: commence, howl, have · To what, where: second fit
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 (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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 speech | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 speech | det |
| 3 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 commenced | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 commenced | nsubj |
| 5 | commenced | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fit | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 fit | amod |
| 8 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 commenced | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 yawning | case |
| 10 | yawning | yawning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fit | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 howled | cc |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 howled | advmod |
| 13 | howled | howl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 commenced | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 wolf | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wolf | det |
| 16 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 howled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 commenced | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 first | case |
| 22 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 had | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 commenced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commence | past | man | a second fit of yawning | with this speech | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent fit=Eventuality with speech=Subeventuality | |||
| 2 | howl | participle | man not said here | again | like a wolf | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | have | past | man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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