Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 114
Having vastly delighted the assembly, he sat down amidst universal applause.
Who acts: Having, bull · What happens: have, delight, sit down · To what, where: assembly
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 (Having, bull), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 delighted | csubj |
| 2 | vastly | vastly | ADV | _ | 1 Having | advmod |
| 3 | delighted | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 assembly | det |
| 5 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 delighted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 sat | compound:prt |
| 10 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 12 applause | case |
| 11 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 applause | amod |
| 12 | applause | applause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vastly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | delight | past | Having | the assembly | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus assembly=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | bull | amidst universal applause | vn assuming_position-50 «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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