Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 89
The Buffoon grunted and squeaked away first, and obtained, as on the preceding day, the applause and cheers of the spectators.
Who acts: Buffoon · What happens: grunt, squeak away, obtain, precede, cheer · To what, where: spectators
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Buffoon | det |
| 2 | Buffoon | Buffoon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grunted | nsubj |
| 3 | grunted | grunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 squeaked | cc |
| 5 | squeaked | squeak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grunted | conj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 squeaked | advmod |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 squeaked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 obtained | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 obtained | cc |
| 10 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grunted | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 day | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 15 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obtained | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 applause | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 applause | det |
| 19 | applause | applause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cheers | cc |
| 21 | cheers | cheer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 applause | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 spectators | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 spectators | det |
| 24 | spectators | spectator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cheers | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grunt | past | the Buffoon | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | squeak away | past | the Buffoon not said here | away, first property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | obtain | past | the Buffoon not said here | day | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | cheer | the spectators | nom cheer «communication 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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