The Aesop for Children, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, sentence 9
The Lion agreed and the Fox returned to the Ass.
Who acts: Lion, Fox · What happens: agree, return
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, 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 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 returned | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fox | det |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Ass | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ass | det |
| 10 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Lion | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | return | past | the Fox | to the Ass result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ass=Result |
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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