The Aesop for Children, The Ass in the Lion's Skin, sentence 6
Approaching the Ass, he said with a laugh:
Who acts: Ass · What happens: approach, say · To what, where: Ass · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ass | det |
| 3 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Approaching | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Approaching | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 laugh | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 laugh | det |
| 9 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | gerund | Ass not said here | the Ass | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ass | with a laugh | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with laugh=Manner |
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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