The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Gnat, sentence 7
At last, worn out with rage and covered with wounds that his own teeth and claws had made, the Lion gave up the fight.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: wear out, cover, make, give up · To what, where: last, own teeth, fight
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 worn | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 worn | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 rage | case |
| 7 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worn | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 covered | cc |
| 9 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 worn | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 wounds | case |
| 11 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 covered | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 made | obj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 teeth | amod |
| 15 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 claws | cc |
| 17 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 teeth | conj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wounds | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Lion | det |
| 22 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worn | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 gave | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fight | det |
| 26 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear out | participle | last | with rage | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at last=Source | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | with wounds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wound=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect · passive | rage's own teeth and claws | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary that=Product | |||||
| 4 | give up | past | the Lion | the fight | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Source |
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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