Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 83
The Buffoon appeared alone upon the platform, without any apparatus or confederates, and the very sense of expectation caused an intense silence.
Who acts: Buffoon, sense · What happens: appear, cause, sense · To what, where: platform, intense silence, expectation
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 (Buffoon, sense), 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 Buffoon | det |
| 2 | Buffoon | Buffoon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 appeared | advmod |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 platform | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 platform | det |
| 7 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 apparatus | punct |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 apparatus | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 apparatus | det |
| 11 | apparatus | apparatus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 confederates | cc |
| 13 | confederates | confederate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 apparatus | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 caused | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 caused | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sense | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 sense | advmod |
| 18 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caused | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 expectation | case |
| 20 | expectation | expectation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sense | nmod |
| 21 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | parataxis |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 silence | det |
| 23 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 silence | amod |
| 24 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caused | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the Buffoon | the platform | without any apparatus or confederates; alone property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon platform=Location | |||
| 2 | cause | past | the sense of expectation | a intense silence | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition silence=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sense | expectation | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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