Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 16

Loud groans and noises were heard, and crowds of people came from all parts to see what was the matter.

Who acts: crowds · What happens: hear, come, see, be · To what, where: Loud groans, parts, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowds), 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	Loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 groans	amod
2	groans	groan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 noises	cc
4	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 groans	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux:pass
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
9	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 people	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 crowds	nmod
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 parts	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 parts	det
15	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 came	advcl
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 matter	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 matter	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 matter	det
21	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past · passive		Loud groans and noises		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	come	past	crowds of people		all parts	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from part=Initial_Location
3	see	to-infinitive	crowds of people not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past		the matter		tree rules

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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