The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Gnat, sentence 9
And there, he who had defeated the King of beasts came to a miserable end, the prey of a little spider.
Who acts: King · What happens: defeat, come · To what, where: Gnat, miserable end
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 (King), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 defeated | cc |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 defeated | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 defeated | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 defeated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 defeated | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 defeated | aux |
| 7 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 beasts | case |
| 11 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 King | nmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 defeated | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 15 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 end | amod |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 prey | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prey | det |
| 19 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 end | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 spider | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 spider | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 spider | amod |
| 23 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 prey | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 defeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defeat | past · perfect · passive | Gnat | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the King of beasts | to a miserable end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_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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