The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox, sentence 4

The Fox was well satisfied, but the Lion flew into a great rage over it, and with one stroke of his huge paw, he added the Ass to the pile of slain.

Who acts: Fox, Lion, Ass · What happens: be, fly, add, stroke · To what, where: great rage, Ass, huge paw

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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fox	det
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 satisfied	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 satisfied	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 satisfied	advmod
5	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flew	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 flew	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Lion	det
9	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 flew	nsubj
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 satisfied	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 rage	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 rage	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rage	amod
14	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	obl
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flew	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 added	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 added	cc
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 stroke	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 stroke	nummod
21	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 added	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 paw	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 paw	nmod:poss
24	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 paw	amod
25	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stroke	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stroke	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 added	nsubj
28	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 satisfied	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Ass	det
30	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 added	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 pile	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 pile	det
33	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 added	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 slain	case
35	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pile	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 satisfied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Fox			satisfied, well property	tree rules
2	fly	past	the Lion		a great rage	over Fox	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over it=Location
3	add speech: assert	past	Ass	the Ass		with one stroke of Ass's huge paw; to the pile of slain	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ass=Patient with stroke=Co-Patient
4	stroke			Ass's huge paw			nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient

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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