The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion, sentence 5
Now a Boar spied him, and rushing at him, gored him with his yellow tusk.
Who acts: Boar · What happens: spy, rush, gore · To what, where: Lion
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 (Boar), 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 | 4 spied | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Boar | det |
| 3 | Boar | Boar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spied | nsubj |
| 4 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spied | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rushing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rushing | cc |
| 8 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 spied | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rushing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gored | punct |
| 12 | gored | gore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spied | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gored | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 tusk | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tusk | nmod:poss |
| 16 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tusk | amod |
| 17 | tusk | tusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gored | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spy | past | a Boar | Lion | now | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | rush | gerund | a Boar not said here | at Lion | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | gore | past | a Boar not said here | Lion | with Lion's yellow tusk | 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.
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