The Aesop for Children, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, sentence 12
So the Fox led the Ass into a deep pit.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: lead · To what, where: Ass, deep pit
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 led | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fox | det |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ass | det |
| 6 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 pit | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pit | det |
| 9 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pit | amod |
| 10 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the Fox | the Ass | a deep pit | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ass=Theme into pit=Destination |
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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