The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Lion, sentence 1
A Lion and a Man chanced to travel in company through the forest.
What happens: chance, travel · To what, where: Lion, company
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Man | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Man | det |
| 5 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lion | conj |
| 6 | chanced | chance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Lion | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 travel | mark |
| 8 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 chanced | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 company | case |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 travel | obl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 travel | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | participle | a Lion and a Man not said here | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | travel | to-infinitive | company | through the forest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in company=Trajectory |
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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