The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion and the Fox, sentence 6
The Lion replied that he was very ill indeed, and asked the Fox to step in for a moment.
Who acts: Lion, Fox · What happens: reply, be, ask, step in · To what, where: Fox
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 (Lion, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 ill | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ill | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ill | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 ill | advmod |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 replied | advcl |
| 9 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 ill | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fox | det |
| 14 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 step | mark |
| 16 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 step | compound:prt |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 moment | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 moment | det |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 step | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Fox | ill, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Lion not said here | the Fox | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | step in not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | moment | vn run-51.3.2 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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