The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox, sentence 1
Just as a great Bear rushed to seize a stray kid, a Lion leaped from another direction upon the same prey.
Who acts: great Bear · What happens: rush, seize, leap · To what, where: stray kid, Lion, direction
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great Bear), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 rushed | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Bear | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Bear | amod |
| 5 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rushed | nsubj |
| 6 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 seize | mark |
| 8 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rushed | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 kid | det |
| 10 | stray | stray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kid | amod |
| 11 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seize | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Lion | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Lion | det |
| 14 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kid | appos |
| 15 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Lion | acl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 direction | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 direction | det |
| 18 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaped | obl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 prey | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prey | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 prey | amod |
| 22 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 direction | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | a great Bear | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | seize | to-infinitive | a great Bear not said here | a stray kid | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leap | participle | a Lion not said here | another direction upon the same prey | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from direction=Trajectory |
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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