The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Gnat, sentence 5
Mad with rage, the Lion struck fiercely at the Gnat, but only succeeded in tearing himself with his claws.
Who acts: Mad rage · What happens: strike, succeed, tear · 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 (Mad rage), 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 | Mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rage | amod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 rage | case |
| 3 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rage | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lion | det |
| 6 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | nsubj |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 7 struck | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Gnat | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Gnat | det |
| 11 | Gnat | Gnat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 succeeded | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 succeeded | cc |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 succeeded | advmod |
| 15 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 struck | conj |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 tearing | mark |
| 17 | tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 succeeded | advcl |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 tearing | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 claws | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 claws | nmod:poss |
| 21 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tearing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Mad rage | at the Gnat; fiercely property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at gnat=Patient | ||||
| 2 | succeed | past | Mad rage not said here | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tear | gerund | Mad rage not said here | Lion | with Lion's claws | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with claw=Instrument |
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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