Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 53
At the same moment he yawned the third time and set up a terrible howl.
Who acts: Innkeeper · What happens: yawn, set up · To what, where: terrible howl
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yawned | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 yawned | nsubj |
| 6 | yawned | yawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yawned | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 yawned | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 howl | det |
| 14 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 howl | amod |
| 15 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 yawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yawn | past | Innkeeper | moment; time | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set up | infinitive | Innkeeper not said here | a terrible howl | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient howl=Result |
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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