Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 474
One of them ran away, but the other stood his ground, and laid about him so lustily with his sword that the Robber was fain to fly and leave him in peace.
Who acts: One, other, Robber · What happens: run away, stand, lay, be, fly, leave · To what, where: ground, Notoriety, peace
This is a sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, other, Robber), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 stood | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ground | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laid | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 laid | cc |
| 15 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stood | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 laid | obl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 lustily | advmod |
| 19 | lustily | lustily | ADV | _ | 15 laid | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 sword | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sword | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laid | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 fain | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Robber | det |
| 25 | Robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fain | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fain | cop |
| 27 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lustily | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 fly | mark |
| 29 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 fain | xcomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 leave | cc |
| 31 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 fly | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 leave | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 peace | case |
| 34 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leave | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past | One of pieces | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the other | Notoriety's ground | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | the other not said here | about Notoriety; with Notoriety's sword; lustily property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the Robber | fain property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fly | to-infinitive | the Robber not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | leave | infinitive | the Robber not said here | Notoriety | peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in peace=Location |
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: «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). Annotation: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (mova-tales-silver-en.conllu), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence gutenberg:pg11339:474.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.3.
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