Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 129
They rushed clamorously into the presence of the Lioness and demanded of her the settlement of the dispute.
Who acts: animals · What happens: rush, demand · To what, where: presence, settlement
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | clamorously | clamorously | ADV | _ | 2 rushed | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 presence | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 presence | det |
| 6 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rushed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Lioness | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lioness | det |
| 9 | Lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 presence | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 demanded | cc |
| 11 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 demanded | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 settlement | det |
| 15 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 demanded | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 dispute | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dispute | det |
| 18 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 settlement | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | animals = animal | into the presence of the Lioness result; clamorously property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into presence=Result | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | animals = animal not said here | the settlement of the dispute | of CONTROVERSY | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme settlement=Precondition |
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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