The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion and the Fox, sentence 2
He took care to let all his neighbors know about it, and then lay down in his cave to wait for visitors.
Who acts: He, neighbors · What happens: take, let, know, lie down, wait · To what, where: care, cave
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 (He, neighbors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:776): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 let | mark |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 care | acl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 neighbors | det:predet |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 know | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lay | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 lay | advmod |
| 15 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 lay | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 cave | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cave | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 wait | mark |
| 21 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lay | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 visitors | case |
| 23 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wait | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | He | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | He not said here | care not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | infinitive | his neighbors | about care | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lie down | past | He not said here | his cave | then | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location | ||
| 5 | wait | to-infinitive | He not said here | for visitors | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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