The Aesop for Children, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, sentence 13
But when the Lion saw that the Ass was his for the taking, he first of all struck down the traitor Fox.
Who acts: Lion, Ass, Fox · What happens: see, be, strike down · To what, where: traitor Fox · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lion, Ass, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lion | det |
| 4 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 taking | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ass | det |
| 8 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 taking | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 taking | cop |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 taking | nmod:poss |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 taking | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 taking | det |
| 13 | taking | taking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struck | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taking | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 struck | nsubj |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 struck | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 first | obl |
| 19 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 struck | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Fox | det |
| 22 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Fox | compound |
| 23 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struck | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Lion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the Ass | for Lion's taking | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | strike down | participle | Fox | the traitor Fox | first property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent fox=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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