Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 61

When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year.

Who acts: Pigeons, offspring, Kite · What happens: admit, find, make, slay, pounce · To what, where: Pigeons, cote, more havoc, larger number · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Pigeons, offspring, Kite), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 admitted	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 admitted	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 admitted	aux
4	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 admitted	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 cote	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cote	det
8	cote	cote	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 admitted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 admitted	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 made	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	ccomp
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 havoc	amod
16	havoc	havoc	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 slew	cc
18	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 number	det
20	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 number	amod
21	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slew	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 number	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 day	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 day	nummod
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slew	obl
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 pounce	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Kite	det
29	Kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pounce	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 pounce	aux
31	pounce	pounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 slew	advcl
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 year	case
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 year	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 year	det
35	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 year	amod
36	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pounce	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 admitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	admit speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Pigeons = pigeon	the cote		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme he=Location
2	find	past	Pigeons = pigeon				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	make	past	offspring	more havoc			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent havoc=Product
4	slay	past	Pigeons = pigeon not said here	a larger number of Pigeons		day	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
5	pounce	could	the Kite			year	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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