Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 84

He suddenly bent his head towards his bosom and imitated the squeaking of a little pig so admirably with his voice that the audience declared he had a porker under his cloak, and demanded that it should be shaken out.

Who acts: sense, audience · What happens: bend, imitate, declare, have, demand, shake out · To what, where: head, squeaking, voice, porker, cloak, audience · 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 (sense, audience), 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	3 bent	nsubj
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 bent	advmod
3	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bent	obj
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 bosom	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bosom	nmod:poss
8	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bent	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 imitated	cc
10	imitated	imitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bent	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 squeaking	det
12	squeaking	squeaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 imitated	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 pig	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pig	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pig	amod
16	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 squeaking	nmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 admirably	advmod
18	admirably	admirably	ADV	_	10 imitated	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 voice	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 voice	nmod:poss
21	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 imitated	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 declared	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 audience	det
24	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 declared	nsubj
25	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 voice	acl:relcl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 declared	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 porker	det
29	porker	porker	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 cloak	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 cloak	nmod:poss
32	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 porker	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 demanded	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 demanded	cc
35	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bent	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 shaken	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 shaken	nsubj:pass
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 shaken	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 shaken	aux:pass
40	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 demanded	advcl
41	out	out	ADP	_	40 shaken	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend	past	sense	sense's head		towards sense's bosom; suddenly property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
2	imitate	past	sense not said here	the squeaking of a little pig		with sense's voice; admirably property	vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squeaking=Theme
3	declare speech: other	past	the audience	sense's voice not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent voice=Attribute clause=Theme
4	have	past	sense	a porker	sense's cloak		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porker=Patient
5	demand speech: request	past	sense not said here				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	shake out	should · passive		audience			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
7	bosom		sense				nom bosom «state 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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