The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Lion, sentence 3
Now they reached a clearing in the forest and there stood a statue.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: reach, stand · To what, where: clearing, forest, statue
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 reached | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 clearing | det |
| 5 | clearing | clearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stood | cc |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stood | advmod |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 statue | det |
| 13 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Lion | a clearing | the forest | now | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent clearing=Theme | ||
| 2 | stand | past | Lion not said here | a statue | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer statue=Stimulus |
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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