Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 100

Scarcely had the battle begun, when a great rout overwhelmed the Mice, who scampered off as fast as they could to their holes.

Who acts: Scarcely, battle, great rout, Mice · What happens: have, begin, overwhelm, scamper off · To what, where: battle, Mice

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, battle, great rout, Mice), 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	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 battle	det
4	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 overwhelmed	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 overwhelmed	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rout	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rout	amod
10	rout	rout	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 overwhelmed	nsubj
11	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Mice	det
13	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 overwhelmed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 scampered	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 scampered	nsubj
16	scampered	scamper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Mice	acl:relcl
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 scampered	compound:prt
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 fast	advmod
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 scampered	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 could	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 could	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fast	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 holes	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 holes	nmod:poss
25	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 could	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely	the battle		tree rules
2	begin	participle	the battle not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	overwhelm	past	a great rout	the Mice		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mouse=Experiencer
4	scamper off	past	the Mice		fast property	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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