Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 107

Not long afterwards when someone passed by and observed the unruffled calm of the Sea, he interrupted him and said, “It is again in want of dates, and therefore looks quiet.”

Who acts: someone, calm · What happens: pass by, observe, unruffl, interrupt, say, be · To what, where: unruffled calm, tempest, want · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (someone, calm), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 interrupted	advmod
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 interrupted	nsubj
6	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 someone	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	6 passed	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 observed	cc
9	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 calm	det
11	unruffled	unruffl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 calm	amod
12	calm	calm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 observed	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Sea	det
15	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 calm	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 interrupted	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 interrupted	nsubj
18	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 long	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 interrupted	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 interrupted	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 want	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 want	punct
24	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 want	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 want	cop
26	again	again	ADV	_	28 want	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 want	case
28	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	ccomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 dates	case
30	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 want	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 looks	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 looks	cc
33	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	34 looks	advmod
34	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 interrupted	parataxis
35	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 looks	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 looks	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 looks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass by	participle						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	observe	past		the unruffled calm of the Sea				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent calm=Topic
3	unruffl	participle						tree rules
4	interrupt	past	someone	tempest				tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	someone not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	calm		want	again	of dates	tree rules
7	look in a quote	present					quiet, therefore property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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