Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 116
He moved about in so utterly ridiculous a manner that the Beasts, in a fit of indignation, set upon him with clubs and drove him out of the assembly.
Who acts: bull, Beasts · What happens: move about, set, drive · To what, where: ridiculous manner, bull, 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 (bull, Beasts), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 moved | nsubj |
| 2 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 moved | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 manner | case |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 ridiculous | advmod |
| 6 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 7 ridiculous | advmod |
| 7 | ridiculous | ridiculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 manner | amod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 manner | det |
| 9 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moved | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 set | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Beasts | det |
| 12 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 set | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fit | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 fit | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fit | det |
| 16 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Beasts | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 indignation | case |
| 18 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fit | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Beasts | punct |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 moved | advcl |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 clubs | case |
| 24 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 set | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 drove | cc |
| 26 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 moved | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 drove | obj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 assembly | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 assembly | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 assembly | det |
| 31 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drove | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move about | past | bull | a ridiculous manner | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in manner=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | set | infinitive | the Beasts | upon bull; with clubs | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | bull not said here | bull | the assembly | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out assembly=Trajectory |
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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