The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion, sentence 7
Even a contemptible Ass let fly his heels and brayed his insults in the face of the Lion.
Who acts: contemptible Ass, Ass · What happens: let, fly, bray, insult · To what, where: heels, insults, face
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 (contemptible Ass, Ass), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 Ass | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Ass | det |
| 3 | contemptible | contemptible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Ass | amod |
| 4 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | nsubj |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heels | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fly | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brayed | cc |
| 10 | brayed | bray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 insults | nmod:poss |
| 12 | insults | insult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 brayed | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 face | det |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brayed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Lion | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Lion | det |
| 18 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 face | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | a contemptible Ass | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fly | infinitive | a contemptible Ass not said here | Ass's heels | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bray | past | a contemptible Ass not said here | Ass's insults | the face of the Lion | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insult=Topic | |||
| 4 | insult | Ass | nom insult «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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