The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion and the Fox, sentence 5
Standing at a safe distance from the cave, he inquired politely after the Lion's health.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: stand, inquire
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 (Fox), 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 | Standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 inquired | advcl |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 distance | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 distance | det |
| 4 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 distance | amod |
| 5 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Standing | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 distance | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Standing | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 inquired | nsubj |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 11 inquired | advmod |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 health | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Lion | det |
| 15 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 health | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Lion | case |
| 17 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 inquired | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | Fox not said here | at a safe distance from the cave | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Fox | after the Lion's health | politely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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