The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 1
A Lion lay asleep in the forest, his great head resting on his paws.
Who acts: Lion, great head · What happens: lie, rest · To what, where: forest, paws
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, great head), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lay | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 head | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 head | amod |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forest | appos |
| 12 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 head | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 paws | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 paws | nmod:poss |
| 15 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 resting | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | a Lion | the forest | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | |||
| 2 | rest | gerund | Lion's great head not said here | Lion's paws | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on paw=Location |
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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