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

"Away with you, vile insect!" said a Lion angrily to a Gnat that was buzzing around his head.

Who acts: Lion, Gnat · What happens: say, buzz · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Gnat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, Gnat), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Away	punct
2	Away	away	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 insect	punct
6	vile	vile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 insect	amod
7	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 you	appos
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 insect	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 insect	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Lion	det
12	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	16 Gnat	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Gnat	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Gnat	det
16	Gnat	gnat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 buzzing	nsubj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 buzzing	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 buzzing	aux
19	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
20	around	around	ADP	_	22 head	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 buzzing	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a Lion					away property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	buzz	past · progressive	a Gnat			Gnat's head			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around head=Location

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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