Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 84

The Wolf complied, and while he was piping and the Kid was dancing, some hounds hearing the sound ran up and began chasing the Wolf.

Who acts: Wolf, favour, Kid, hounds · What happens: comply, pipe, dance, hear, run up, begin · To what, where: sound, Wolf

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 (Wolf, favour, Kid, hounds), 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 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 complied	nsubj
3	complied	comply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ran	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 piping	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 piping	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 piping	aux
9	piping	pipe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 ran	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dancing	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Kid	det
12	Kid	Kid	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 dancing	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dancing	aux
14	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 piping	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 piping	punct
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 hounds	det
17	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ran	nsubj
18	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 hounds	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sound	det
20	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hearing	obj
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 complied	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 ran	compound:prt
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ran	conj
25	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 began	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Wolf	det
27	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 chasing	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 complied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	comply	past	the Wolf		tree rules
2	pipe	past · progressive	favour		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dance	past · progressive	the Kid		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	gerund	some hounds not said here	the sound	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
5	run up	past	some hounds		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	begin	past	some hounds not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	chase	gerund	some hounds not said here	the Wolf	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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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