The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 9
Unable to free himself, he filled the forest with his angry roaring.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: fill, roar · To what, where: forest
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 | Unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 free | mark |
| 3 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Unable | xcomp |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 free | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 filled | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 filled | nsubj |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Unable | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 roaring | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 roaring | nmod:poss |
| 12 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 roaring | amod |
| 13 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Lion | the forest | with Lion's angry roaring | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent forest=Patient with roaring=Instrument | |||
| 2 | roar | Lion | nom roaring «event intransitive»: poss=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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