Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 21
As he passed along, the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image.
Who acts: material, crowd · What happens: pass along, make · To what, where: lowly prostration
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (material, crowd), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 passed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | advcl |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crowd | det |
| 7 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | lowly | lowly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 prostration | amod |
| 10 | prostration | prostration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 Image | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Image | det |
| 13 | Image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass along | past | material | along property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the crowd | lowly prostration | before the Image | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prostration=Product |
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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