The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and His Shadow, sentence 4
Fancy _me_ running away from a puny Lion!
What happens: run away
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and His Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 me | amod |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fancy | punct |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 me | acl |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 running | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Lion | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 9 | puny | puny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Lion | amod |
| 10 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 running | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | gerund | from a puny Lion; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lion=Trajectory |
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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