Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 17
While they were assembled in anxious expectation of some terrible calamity, out came a Mouse.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: assemble, come, expect · To what, where: crowds, anxious expectation, terrible calamity
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 (Mouse), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 assembled | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 assembled | aux:pass |
| 4 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 came | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 expectation | case |
| 6 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 expectation | amod |
| 7 | expectation | expectation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 assembled | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 calamity | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 calamity | det |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 calamity | amod |
| 11 | calamity | calamity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expectation | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 assembled | punct |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Mouse | det |
| 16 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past · passive | crowds = crowd | anxious expectation of some terrible calamity | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a Mouse | out property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | expect | some terrible calamity | nom expectation «cognition 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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