Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 87

On the morrow a still larger crowd assembled in the theater, but now partiality for their favourite actor very generally prevailed, and the audience came rather to ridicule the Countryman than to see the spectacle.

Who acts: audience · What happens: assemble, prevail, come, ridicule, see · To what, where: larger crowd, theater, morrow, Countryman, spectacle

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 (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	On	on	ADP	_	3 morrow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morrow	det
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crowd	det
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 larger	advmod
6	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 crowd	amod
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 morrow	conj
8	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 crowd	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 theater	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 theater	det
11	theater	theater	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 assembled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 partiality	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 partiality	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 partiality	advmod
15	partiality	partiality	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 morrow	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 actor	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 actor	nmod:poss
18	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 actor	amod
19	actor	actor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 partiality	nmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 generally	advmod
21	generally	generally	ADV	_	22 prevailed	advmod
22	prevailed	prevail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 partiality	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 audience	det
26	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	rather	rather	ADV	_	30 ridicule	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 ridicule	mark
30	ridicule	ridicule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 came	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Countryman	det
32	Countryman	Countryman	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 ridicule	obj
33	than	than	SCONJ	_	35 see	mark
34	to	to	PART	_	35 see	mark
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ridicule	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 spectacle	det
37	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 see	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	assemble	participle		a larger crowd not said here	the theater		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	prevail	participle	the audience not said here			generally property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	the audience		the morrow and a larger crowd but partiality for theaters's favourite actor		tree rules
4	ridicule	to-infinitive	the audience not said here	the Countryman			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countryman=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	the audience not said here	the spectacle			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spectacle=Stimulus

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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