Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 22
On meeting him for the second time, he was still much alarmed, but not to the same extent as at first.
What happens: meet, alarm · To what, where: Lion
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 meeting | mark |
| 2 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 alarmed | advcl |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 meeting | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meeting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 meeting | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 alarmed | advmod |
| 13 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 extent | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 extent | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 extent | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 extent | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 extent | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 extent | amod |
| 20 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 alarmed | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 first | case |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 first | case |
| 23 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 extent | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | gerund | Lion | time | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | alarm | past · passive | Lion | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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