The Aesop for Children, The Hare and His Ears, sentence 1
The Lion had been badly hurt by the horns of a Goat, which he was eating.
Who acts: horns · What happens: hurt, eat · To what, where: Lion
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and His Ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horns), 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 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 hurt | aux:pass |
| 5 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 hurt | advmod |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 horns | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horns | det |
| 9 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hurt | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Goat | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Goat | det |
| 12 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 horns | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eating | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 eating | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eating | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 eating | aux |
| 17 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 horns | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past · perfect · passive | the Lion | by the horns of a Goat; badly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | past · progressive | the horns of a Goat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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