Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 33

A LAMP, soaked with too much oil and flaring brightly, boasted that it gave more light than the sun. Then a sudden puff of wind arose, and the Lamp was immediately extinguished.

Who acts: LAMP, wind · What happens: soak, flare, boast, give, arise, be · To what, where: LAMP, more light, sudden puff

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 (LAMP, wind), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 LAMP	det
2	LAMP	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boasted	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 soaked	punct
4	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 LAMP	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 oil	case
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 oil	amod
8	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soaked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flaring	cc
10	flaring	flare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 oil	conj
11	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	10 flaring	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boasted	punct
13	boasted	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 gave	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 boasted	advcl
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 light	amod
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 sun.	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun.	det
21	sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 light	nmod
22	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 puff	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 puff	det
24	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 puff	amod
25	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 arose	mark
27	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 arose	nsubj
28	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 puff	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 extinguished	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 extinguished	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Lamp	det
32	Lamp	Lamp	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 extinguished	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 extinguished	cop
34	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	35 extinguished	advmod
35	extinguished	extinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boasted	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 boasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	soak	participle		a LAMP not said here	with much oil	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with oil=Theme
2	flare	gerund			brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	boast speech: other	past	a LAMP			vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	Lamp	more light	than the sun.; a sudden puff obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
5	arise	past	wind	a sudden puff not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location puff=Theme
6	is	past	the Lamp		extinguished, immediately property	tree rules

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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