The Aesop for Children, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, sentence 4
The Ass was very much frightened, but the Fox calmed his fears.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: frighten, calm, fear · To what, where: Ass, fears
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ass | det |
| 2 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 frightened | advmod |
| 6 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 calmed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 calmed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fox | det |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calmed | nsubj |
| 11 | calmed | calm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fears | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 calmed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the Ass | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | calm | past | the Fox | Fox's fears | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fear=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | fear | Fox | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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