Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 51

The Innkeeper, hearing his tale and believing what he said, became greatly alarmed and, rising from his seat, attempted to run away.

Who acts: Innkeeper · What happens: hear, believe, say, become, alarm, rise · To what, where: tale, seat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Innkeeper), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Innkeeper	det
2	Innkeeper	Innkeeper	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 became	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hearing	punct
4	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Innkeeper	acl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tale	nmod:poss
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hearing	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 believing	cc
8	believing	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hearing	conj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 believing	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Innkeeper	punct
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	15 alarmed	advmod
15	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 became	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rising	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rising	punct
18	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 alarmed	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 seat	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 seat	nmod:poss
21	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rising	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 attempted	punct
23	attempted	attempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 became	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 run	mark
25	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 attempted	xcomp
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 run	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the Innkeeper not said here	Innkeeper's tale			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus
2	believe	gerund	the Innkeeper not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Innkeeper				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	become	past	the Innkeeper				tree rules
5	alarm	participle	the Innkeeper not said here			greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	rise	gerund	the Innkeeper not said here		Innkeeper's seat		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial_Location
7	attempt	participle	the Innkeeper not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	run away not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Innkeeper not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	tell		Innkeeper				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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