Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 100
The dancing spectacle thus came to an end amidst the laughter and ridicule of the audience.
Who acts: dancing spectacle · What happens: come, ridicule · To what, where: end, audience
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dancing spectacle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spectacle | det |
| 2 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spectacle | compound |
| 3 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 11 laughter | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 laughter | det |
| 11 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ridicule | cc |
| 13 | ridicule | ridicule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laughter | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 audience | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 audience | det |
| 16 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ridicule | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the dancing spectacle | to a end | amidst the laughter and ridicule of the audience; thus property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ridicule | the audience | nom ridicule «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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