The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Gnat, sentence 4
The next instant he flew at the Lion and stung him sharply on the nose.
Who acts: next instant · What happens: fly, sting · To what, where: Lion
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 (next instant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 instant | amod |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Lion | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lion | det |
| 8 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stung | cc |
| 10 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stung | obj |
| 12 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 10 stung | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 nose | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nose | det |
| 15 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stung | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the next instant | at the Lion | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at lion=Location | ||||
| 2 | sting | past | the next instant not said here | Lion | on the nose; sharply property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer on nose=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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