The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Lion, sentence 2
They soon began to quarrel, for each of them boasted that he and his kind were far superior to the other both in strength and mind.
Who acts: Lion, each, Man · What happens: begin, quarrel, boast, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Lion, each, Man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 began | advmod |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 quarrel | mark |
| 5 | quarrel | quarrel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 boasted | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 boasted | mark |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 boasted | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 each | nmod |
| 11 | boasted | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 superior | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 superior | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 kind | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 kind | nmod:poss |
| 16 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 he | conj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 superior | cop |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 superior | advmod |
| 19 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boasted | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 other | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 other | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 superior | obl |
| 23 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 25 strength | cc:preconj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 strength | case |
| 25 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 superior | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mind | cc |
| 27 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 strength | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Lion | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | quarrel | to-infinitive | Lion not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | boast speech: other | past | each | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Man | to the other; far, superior 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/101/2/