The Aesop for Children, Two Travelers and a Bear, sentence 3
The other, unable to fight the savage beast alone, threw himself on the ground and lay still, as if he were dead.
Who acts: Bear · What happens: fight, throw, lay, be · To what, where: savage beast, Bear, ground
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Two Travelers and a Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 other | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 unable | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 unable | punct |
| 4 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fight | mark |
| 6 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 unable | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beast | det |
| 8 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beast | amod |
| 9 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fight | obj |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 fight | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 threw | punct |
| 12 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unable | parataxis |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 threw | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lay | cc |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 threw | conj |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 lay | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dead | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 dead | mark |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 dead | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 dead | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 dead | cop |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lay | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | to-infinitive | the savage beast | alone property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | Bear | the ground | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on ground=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | still | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Bear | dead property | 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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