The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 11
Running to one of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the Lion was free.
Who acts: Mouse, great ropes, voice, Lion · What happens: run, bound, gnaw, part, be · To what, where: one, Lion, voice
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 (Mouse, great ropes, voice, Lion), 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 | Running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 gnawed | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Running | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ropes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ropes | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ropes | amod |
| 7 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 bound | nsubj |
| 9 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ropes | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bound | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Running | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gnawed | nsubj |
| 13 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gnawed | obj |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 parted | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 parted | nsubj |
| 17 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gnawed | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 free | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 free | cc |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 free | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Lion | det |
| 22 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 free | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 free | cop |
| 24 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gnawed | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gnawed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | Mouse not said here | one of the great ropes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to one=Result | ||||
| 2 | bound | present | the great ropes | Lion | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gnaw | past | Mouse | voice | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | part | past | voice | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the Lion | free, soon property | tree rules |
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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