The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion, sentence 3

His limbs could no longer bear him, and the King of Beasts was very pitiful indeed as he lay gasping on the ground, about to die.

Who acts: limbs, King, Lion · What happens: bear, be, lie, gasp, die · To what, where: Lion, ground

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (limbs, King, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 limbs	nmod:poss
2	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bear	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bear	aux
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 longer	advmod
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 bear	advmod
6	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bear	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pitiful	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pitiful	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 pitiful	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Beasts	case
13	Beasts	Beasts	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 King	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pitiful	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 pitiful	advmod
16	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bear	conj
17	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	20 lay	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 lay	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lay	nsubj
20	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pitiful	advcl
21	gasping	gasp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 lay	xcomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gasping	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 die	punct
26	about	about	ADV	_	28 die	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 die	mark
28	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bear	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	could	Lion's limbs	Lion		long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	is	past	the King of Beasts			pitiful property	tree rules
3	lie	past	Lion			indeed property	tree rules
4	gasp	gerund	Lion not said here		the ground		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	die	to-infinitive	Lion's limbs not said here			about property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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