The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Lion, sentence 7
"Ho!" laughed the Lion, "a Man made that statue.
Who acts: Ho, Man · What happens: laugh, make · To what, where: Lion, 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 (Ho, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 2 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lion | det |
| 7 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Man | det |
| 11 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | conj |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 statue | det |
| 14 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Ho | the Lion | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | a Man | that statue | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Product |
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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