The Aesop for Children, The Ass in the Lion's Skin, sentence 1
An Ass found a Lion's skin left in the forest by a hunter.
Who acts: Ass · What happens: find, leave · To what, where: skin, forest
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass in the Lion's Skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Ass | det |
| 2 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Lion | det |
| 5 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 skin | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Lion | case |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 skin | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 hunter | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hunter | det |
| 14 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | a Ass | a Lion's skin | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | a Lion's skin not said here | in the forest result; by a hunter | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in forest=Result |
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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