Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 29
A MONKEY once danced in an assembly of the Beasts, and so pleased them all by his performance that they elected him their King.
Who acts: MONKEY, ups · What happens: dance, elect, perform · To what, where: assembly, Monkey
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MONKEY, ups), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 MONKEY | det |
| 2 | MONKEY | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 danced | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 danced | advmod |
| 4 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 assembly | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 assembly | det |
| 7 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 danced | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Beasts | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Beasts | det |
| 10 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 assembly | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleased | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pleased | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 pleased | advmod |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 danced | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pleased | obj |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 performance | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 performance | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 performance | nmod:poss |
| 19 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 danced | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 elected | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 elected | nsubj |
| 22 | elected | elect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 danced | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 elected | obj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 King | nmod:poss |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 elected | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | a MONKEY | a assembly of the Beasts | by Monkey's performance; once property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in assembly=Location | |||
| 2 | elect | past | ups = up | Monkey | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme king=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | perform | Monkey | nom performance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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