The Aesop for Children, The Ass in the Lion's Skin, sentence 2
He dressed himself in it, and amused himself by hiding in a thicket and rushing out suddenly at the animals who passed that way.
Who acts: Ass, animals · What happens: dress, amuse, hide, rush out, pass · To what, where: Ass, thicket, way
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, animals), 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 | 2 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 dressed | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dressed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 amused | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 amused | cc |
| 8 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dressed | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 amused | obj |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 hiding | mark |
| 11 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 amused | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 thicket | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thicket | det |
| 14 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hiding | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rushing | cc |
| 16 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 hiding | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 rushing | compound:prt |
| 18 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 rushing | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 animals | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 animals | det |
| 21 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rushing | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 passed | nsubj |
| 23 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 animals | acl:relcl |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | Ass | Ass | in Lion | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | amuse | past | Ass not said here | Ass | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hide | gerund | Ass not said here | a thicket | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thicket=Location | ||||
| 4 | rush out | gerund | Ass not said here | at the animals; suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at animal=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | pass | past | the animals | that way | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
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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