The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion and the Fox, sentence 1

An old Lion, whose teeth and claws were so worn that it was not so easy for him to get food as in his younger days, pretended that he was sick.

Who acts: old Lion, him, he · What happens: be, not be, get, pretend · To what, where: food

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Lion, him, he), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Lion	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Lion	amod
3	Lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worn	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 teeth	punct
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 teeth	nmod:poss
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Lion	appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 claws	cc
8	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 teeth	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 worn	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 worn	advmod
11	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 easy	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 easy	expl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 easy	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 easy	advmod
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 easy	advmod
17	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 worn	advcl
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 get	mark
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 get	nsubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 get	mark
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 easy	ccomp
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obj
23	as	as	ADP	_	27 days	case
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 days	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 days	nmod:poss
26	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 days	amod
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 get	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pretended	punct
29	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 worn	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 sick	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sick	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sick	cop
33	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pretended	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 worn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a old Lion			worn property	tree rules
2	not is	past	a old Lion not said here			easy property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	him = he	food	day		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
4	pretend	past	a old Lion not said here				tree rules
5	is	past	he			sick 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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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