The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox, sentence 12
"I learned a lesson from the Ass," replied the Fox, carefully edging away.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: learn, reply, edge away · To what, where: lesson, Ass · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 learned | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lesson | det |
| 5 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learned | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Ass | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ass | det |
| 8 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 learned | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fox | det |
| 13 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 edging | punct |
| 15 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 16 edging | advmod |
| 16 | edging | edge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 replied | advcl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 edging | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | past | the Fox = fox | a lesson | the Ass | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Fox | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | edge away | gerund | the Fox not said here | away, carefully property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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