Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 82
This report being spread about made a great stir, and the theater was crowded in every part.
Who acts: theater · What happens: spread, make, be · To what, where: report, great stir, part
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 (theater), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 report | det |
| 2 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 spread | aux:pass |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 6 made | mark |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stir | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stir | amod |
| 9 | stir | stir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crowded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crowded | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 theater | det |
| 13 | theater | theater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crowded | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 crowded | cop |
| 15 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spread | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 part | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 part | det |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crowded | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | gerund · passive | this report | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past | a great stir | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stir=Product | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the theater | every part | crowded property | tree rules |
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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