Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 98

The Monkeys at the sight of the nuts forgot their dancing and became (as indeed they were) Monkeys instead of actors.

Who acts: Monkeys, nuts · What happens: forget, become, be, sight, dance · To what, where: dancing, Monkeys, nuts

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 (Monkeys, nuts), 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 Monkeys	det
2	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 forgot	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 sight	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sight	det
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Monkeys	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 nuts	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nuts	det
8	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sight	nmod
9	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dancing	nmod:poss
11	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forgot	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 became	cc
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forgot	conj
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 Monkeys	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 were	mark
16	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	18 were	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 were	nsubj
18	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Monkeys	advcl
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 were	punct
20	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 became	xcomp
21	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	23 actors	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	21 instead	fixed
23	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 Monkeys	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget	past	the Monkeys at the sight of the nuts	nuts's dancing		tree rules
2	become	past	the Monkeys at the sight of the nuts not said here	Monkeys instead actors		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	be	past	Monkeys = monkey		indeed property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sight			the nuts		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	dance		nuts = nut			nom dancing «act transitive»: 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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