Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 33
His master, quickly coming up, was very much disappointed, and fiercely abused the dog.
Who acts: master · What happens: come up, be, abuse · To what, where: dog
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 (master), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 master | nmod:poss |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disappointed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 coming | advmod |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 master | appos |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 coming | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 master | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 disappointed | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 disappointed | advmod |
| 11 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 abused | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 abused | cc |
| 14 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 15 abused | advmod |
| 15 | abused | abuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 disappointed | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 abused | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 disappointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | gerund | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Hound's master | disappointed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | abuse | past | Hound's master not said here | the dog | fiercely property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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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