Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 34

The servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs.

Who acts: servants · What happens: hear, perceive, relieve, drive out · To what, where: strange hubbub, danger, contrary, Ass, stable

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 servants	det
2	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hearing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hearing	punct
4	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hubbub	det
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hubbub	amod
7	hubbub	hubbub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hearing	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 perceiving	cc
9	perceiving	perceive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hearing	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 danger	det
11	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perceiving	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 master	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 master	nmod:poss
14	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 danger	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 relieved	punct
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	17 relieved	advmod
17	relieved	relieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hearing	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 relieved	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 drove	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drove	cc
21	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 relieved	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 drove	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Ass	det
24	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drove	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 stable	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 stable	nmod:poss
27	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 drove	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 kicks	case
29	kicks	kick	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stable	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 clubs	cc
31	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 kicks	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cuffs	cc
33	cuffs	cuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 kicks	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hearing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the servants	the strange hubbub			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hubbub=Stimulus
2	perceive	gerund	the servants not said here	the danger of servants's master			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus
3	relieve	past		contrary		quickly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
4	drive out	past		the Ass	contrary's stable		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ass=Theme to stable=Trajectory

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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