Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 97

The spectacle was often repeated with great applause, till on one occasion a courtier, bent on mischief, took from his pocket a handful of nuts and threw them upon the stage.

What happens: repeat, bend, take, throw · To what, where: spectacle, mischief, handful, pocket, courtiers, stage

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: 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	2 spectacle	det
2	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 repeated	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 repeated	aux:pass
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 repeated	advmod
5	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 applause	case
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 applause	amod
8	applause	applause	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 repeated	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 occasion	punct
10	till	till	ADP	_	13 occasion	case
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 occasion	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 occasion	nummod
13	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 repeated	obl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 courtier	det
15	courtier	courtier	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 occasion	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bent	punct
17	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 occasion	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 mischief	case
19	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bent	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 repeated	parataxis
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 pocket	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 pocket	nmod:poss
24	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 handful	det
26	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 nuts	case
28	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 handful	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 threw	cc
30	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 threw	obj
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 stage	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stage	det
34	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past · passive	the spectacle		till one occasion	with great applause; often property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: subject=Eventuality with applause=Subeventuality
2	bend	participle		mischief			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mischief=Location
3	take	past	a handful of nuts	man's pocket			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent handful=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
4	throw	past	courtiers = courtier	the stage			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon stage=Destination

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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