The Aesop for Children, The Lion's Share, sentence 3

Without being asked, the Lion placed himself at the head of the feast to do the carving, and, with a great show of fairness, began to count the guests.

Who acts: Lion, great show · What happens: ask, place, do, begin, count, show · To what, where: Wolf, head, carving, guests, fairness

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion's Share. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, great show), 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	Without	without	SCONJ	_	3 asked	mark
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 asked	aux:pass
3	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 placed	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lion	det
6	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 placed	nsubj
7	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 placed	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 head	det
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 feast	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feast	det
14	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 head	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 placed	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 carving	det
18	carving	carving	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 show	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 show	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 show	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 show	amod
25	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 began	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 fairness	case
27	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 show	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 show	punct
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 placed	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 count	mark
31	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 guests	det
33	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 count	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund · passive	the Lion not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»
2	place	past	the Lion	Wolf	the head of the feast	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at head=Destination
3	do	to-infinitive	the Lion not said here	the carving		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carving=Eventuality
4	begin	past	a great show of fairness			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	count	to-infinitive	a great show of fairness not said here	the guests		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme
6	show			fairness		nom show «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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