The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox, sentence 1
A Lion, an Ass, and a Fox were hunting in company, and caught a large quantity of game.
Who acts: Fox, Lion · What happens: hunt, catch · To what, where: Lion, company, large quantity
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ass | punct |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Ass | det |
| 5 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lion | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hunting | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hunting | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Fox | det |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hunting | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hunting | aux |
| 11 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Lion | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 company | case |
| 13 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hunting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 caught | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 caught | cc |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 quantity | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 quantity | amod |
| 19 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 game | case |
| 21 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 quantity | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · progressive | a Fox | a Lion and a Ass not said here | company | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lion=Theme in company=Location | |||
| 2 | catch | past | a Lion and a Ass | a large quantity of game | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme |
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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