Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 74
When the morning dawned, the Cock, as usual, crowed very loudly several times.
What happens: dawn, crow · To what, where: Cock
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 dawned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dawned | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Cock | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Cock | det |
| 7 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dawned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 usual | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 usual | case |
| 10 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dawned | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crowed | punct |
| 12 | crowed | crow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 usual | conj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 loudly | advmod |
| 14 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 12 crowed | advmod |
| 15 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 times | amod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 crowed | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | participle | the Cock | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crow | participle | time | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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