The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Ass, sentence 1

One day as the Lion walked proudly down a forest aisle, and the animals respectfully made way for him, an Ass brayed a scornful remark as he passed.

Who acts: One day, animals, Ass · What happens: walk, make, bray, pass · To what, where: forest aisle, way, scornful remark

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, animals, Ass), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	nsubj
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 Lion	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lion	det
5	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	6 walked	advmod
8	down	down	ADP	_	11 aisle	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 aisle	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 aisle	compound
11	aisle	aisle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 animals	det
15	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	nsubj
16	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	_	17 made	advmod
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walked	parataxis
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brayed	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Ass	det
23	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brayed	nsubj
24	brayed	bray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 made	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 remark	det
26	scornful	scornful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 remark	amod
27	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brayed	obj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 passed	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 passed	nsubj
30	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 brayed	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	One day as the Lion		a forest aisle	proudly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down aisle=Trajectory
2	make	past	the animals	way		for Lion; respectfully property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent way=Product for he=Beneficiary
3	bray	past	a Ass	a scornful remark			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Topic
4	pass	past	Ass				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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