Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 96

Being naturally great mimics of men’s actions, they showed themselves most apt pupils, and when arrayed in their rich clothes and masks, they danced as well as any of the courtiers.

Who acts: great mimics, mimics, men · What happens: be, show, array, dance, act · To what, where: great mimics, mimics, rich clothes

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 (great mimics, mimics, men), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 mimics	cop
2	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	4 mimics	advmod
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mimics	amod
4	mimics	mimic	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 showed	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 actions	case
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 actions	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 men	case
8	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mimics	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 showed	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 showed	nsubj
11	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 showed	obj
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 apt	advmod
14	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pupils	amod
15	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 showed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 arrayed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 arrayed	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 arrayed	advmod
19	arrayed	array	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 showed	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 clothes	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 clothes	nmod:poss
22	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 clothes	amod
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 arrayed	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 masks	cc
25	masks	mask	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 clothes	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 danced	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 danced	nsubj
28	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 showed	parataxis
29	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	32 any	cc
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 as	fixed
31	as	as	ADP	_	29 as	fixed
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 danced	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 courtiers	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 courtiers	det
35	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 any	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		great mimics		of men's actions; naturally property	tree rules
2	show	past	great mimics	mimics = mimic			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient pupil=Topic
3	array	participle	great mimics not said here		mimics's rich clothes and masks		tree rules
4	dance	past	mimics = mimic				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	act		men				nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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