The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 8
Some days later, while stalking his prey in the forest, the Lion was caught in the toils of a hunter's net.
Who acts: net · What happens: stalk, catch, toil · To what, where: prey, forest, Lion, toils
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 (net), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 caught | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stalking | punct |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 stalking | mark |
| 6 | stalking | stalk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 later | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 prey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stalking | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stalking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 later | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Lion | det |
| 14 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 caught | aux:pass |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 toils | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 toils | det |
| 19 | toils | toil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 caught | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 net | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hunter | det |
| 22 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 net | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 hunter | case |
| 24 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 toils | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stalk | gerund | Lion's prey | the forest | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prey=Theme in forest=Location | ||||
| 2 | catch | past · passive | the Lion | the toils of a hunter's net | late property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | toil | a hunter's net | nom toil «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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