Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 109
ONCE UPON A TIME, when the Sun announced his intention to take a wife, the Frogs lifted up their voices in clamor to the sky.
Who acts: Sun, Frogs · What happens: announce, take, lift up, intend · To what, where: intention, wife, voices, clamor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, Frogs), 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 | ONCE | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 announced | advmod |
| 2 | UPON | upon | ADP | _ | 4 TIME | case |
| 3 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 TIME | det |
| 4 | TIME | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ONCE | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 announced | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 announced | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sun | det |
| 8 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 announced | nsubj |
| 9 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 intention | nmod:poss |
| 11 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 announced | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 announced | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wife | det |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lifted | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Frogs | det |
| 18 | Frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lifted | nsubj |
| 19 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 announced | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 lifted | compound:prt |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 voices | nmod:poss |
| 22 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lifted | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 clamor | case |
| 24 | clamor | clamor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lifted | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 sky | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sky | det |
| 27 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lifted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | the Sun | Sun's intention | once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | a wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | |||||
| 3 | lift up | past | the Frogs | Frogs's voices | clamor | to the sky | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme in clamor=Destination to sky=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | intend | Sun | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=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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