Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 97

The rustic driver, stupefied and aghast, stood looking at the wagon, and did nothing but utter loud cries to Hercules to come and help him.

Who acts: rustic driver · What happens: stupefy, stand, look, do, utter, come · To what, where: rustic driver, nothing, loud cries, Hercules, driver

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 (rustic driver), 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	3 driver	det
2	rustic	rustic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 driver	amod
3	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stupefied	punct
5	stupefied	stupefy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 driver	acl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 aghast	cc
7	aghast	aghast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stupefied	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 driver	punct
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stood	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 wagon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wagon	det
13	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 did	cc
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	parataxis
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 did	obj
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 utter	cc
19	utter	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 did	conj
20	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cries	amod
21	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 utter	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Hercules	case
23	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 utter	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 come	mark
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 utter	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 help	cc
27	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 help	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	stupefy	participle		the rustic driver not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	stand	past	the rustic driver				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	look	gerund	the rustic driver not said here			at the wagon	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wagon=Theme
4	do	past		nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
5	utter speech: other	present		loud cries	Hercules		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cry=Topic to hercules=Recipient
6	come	to-infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	help	infinitive			driver		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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