The Aesop for Children, The Hare and His Ears, sentence 2

He was very angry to think that any animal that he chose for a meal, should be so brazen as to wear such dangerous things as horns to scratch him while he ate.

Who acts: Lion, animal · What happens: be, think, choose, wear, scratch, eat · To what, where: animal, such dangerous things, 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 (Lion, animal), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 angry	advmod
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 think	mark
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 angry	csubj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 brazen	mark
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 animal	det
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brazen	nsubj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 chose	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chose	nsubj
12	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 animal	acl:relcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 meal	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 meal	det
15	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chose	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 meal	punct
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 brazen	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 brazen	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 brazen	advmod
20	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 think	ccomp
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 wear	mark
22	to	to	PART	_	23 wear	mark
23	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 brazen	advcl
24	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 things	amod
25	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 things	amod
26	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wear	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 horns	case
28	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wear	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 scratch	mark
30	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wear	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 scratch	obj
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 ate	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 ate	nsubj
34	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 scratch	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Lion		angry property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	choose	past	Lion	any animal not said here	for a meal	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent animal=Theme for meal=Beneficiary
4	is	should	any animal		brazen property	tree rules
5	wear	to-infinitive	any animal not said here	such dangerous things	as horns	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent thing=Source
6	scratch	to-infinitive	any animal not said here	Lion		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	eat	past	Lion			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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