Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 85
When that was done and nothing was found, they cheered the actor, and loaded him with the loudest applause.
Who acts: Buffoon · What happens: do, find, cheer, load · To what, where: that, nothing, actor, sense
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 found | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux:pass |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 done | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cheered | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cheered | nsubj |
| 11 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 actor | det |
| 13 | actor | actor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cheered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 loaded | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 loaded | cc |
| 16 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cheered | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 loaded | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 applause | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 applause | det |
| 20 | loudest | loud | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 applause | amod |
| 21 | applause | applause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loaded | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | nothing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cheer | past | Buffoon | the actor | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus actor=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | load | past | Buffoon not said here | sense | with the loudest applause | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with applause=Theme |
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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