The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 3
Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny creature to kill her.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: rouse, lay, kill · To what, where: nap, huge paw, tiny creature, Mouse
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), 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 | Roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 laid | advcl |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 nap | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 nap | nmod:poss |
| 4 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Roused | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Roused | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lion | det |
| 7 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | nsubj |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 paw | nmod:poss |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 paw | amod |
| 11 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obj |
| 12 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 8 laid | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 creature | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 creature | det |
| 15 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 creature | amod |
| 16 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 kill | mark |
| 18 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 creature | acl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kill | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | participle | the Lion not said here | Lion's nap | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | the Lion | Lion's huge paw | the tiny creature | angrily property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on creature=Destination | ||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | Mouse | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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