Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 113
THE BEASTS of the forest gave a splendid entertainment at which the Monkey stood up and danced.
Who acts: BEASTS, Monkey · What happens: give, stand up, dance · To what, where: splendid entertainment
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BEASTS, Monkey), 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 BEASTS | det |
| 2 | BEASTS | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 forest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 BEASTS | nmod |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 entertainment | det |
| 8 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 entertainment | amod |
| 9 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 stood | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Monkey | det |
| 13 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 stood | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 danced | cc |
| 17 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stood | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the BEASTS of the forest | a splendid entertainment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entertainment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand up | past | the Monkey | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at which=Location | |||||
| 3 | dance | past | the Monkey not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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