The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Gnat, sentence 6
Again and again the Gnat stung the Lion, who now was roaring terribly.
Who acts: Gnat, Lion · What happens: sting, roar · 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 (Gnat, Lion), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 6 stung | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 again | cc |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Again | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Gnat | det |
| 5 | Gnat | Gnat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stung | nsubj |
| 6 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lion | det |
| 8 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stung | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 roaring | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 roaring | nsubj |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 roaring | advmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 roaring | aux |
| 13 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Lion | conj |
| 14 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 13 roaring | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | past | the Gnat | the Lion | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lion=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | roar | past · progressive | the Lion | now | terribly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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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