The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Lion, sentence 4
It was a representation of Heracles in the act of tearing the jaws of the Nemean Lion.
Who acts: statue, act · What happens: be, tear · To what, where: representation, jaws
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 (statue, act), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:786): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 representation | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 representation | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 representation | det |
| 4 | representation | representation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Heracles | case |
| 6 | Heracles | Heracles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 representation | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 act | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 act | det |
| 9 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Heracles | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 tearing | mark |
| 11 | tearing | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 act | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 jaws | det |
| 13 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tearing | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Lion | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lion | det |
| 16 | Nemean | Nemean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Lion | compound |
| 17 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 jaws | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 representation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | statue | a representation | of Heracles in the act | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tear | gerund | the act not said here | the jaws of the Nemean Lion | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location jaw=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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