Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 91
The Crowd, however, cried out with one consent that the Buffoon had given a far more exact imitation, and clamored for the Countryman to be kicked out of the theater.
Who acts: Crowd · What happens: cry out, give, clamor, kick out · To what, where: Buffoon, theater
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 (Crowd), 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 Crowd | det |
| 2 | Crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Crowd | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 cried | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 cried | compound:prt |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 consent | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 consent | nummod |
| 10 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 given | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Buffoon | det |
| 13 | Buffoon | Buffoon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cried | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 imitation | det |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 exact | advmod |
| 19 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 imitation | amod |
| 20 | imitation | imitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 clamored | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 clamored | cc |
| 23 | clamored | clamor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cried | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 Countryman | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Countryman | det |
| 26 | Countryman | Countryman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 clamored | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 kicked | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 kicked | aux:pass |
| 29 | kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 clamored | advcl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 theater | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 theater | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 theater | det |
| 33 | theater | theater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kicked | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | the Crowd | with one consent; however property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with consent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | the Buffoon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient imitation=Theme | |||||
| 3 | clamor | participle | the Crowd not said here | for the Countryman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kick out | to-infinitive · passive | the Crowd not said here | the theater | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: theater=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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