The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox, sentence 3
Just then a Fox dashed up, and seizing the kid, made off with it as fast as he could go, while the Lion and the Bear looked on in helpless rage.
Who acts: Fox, Lion · What happens: dash up, seize, make off, go, look on · To what, where: kid
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 (Fox, Lion), 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 | _ | 5 dashed | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 dashed | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Fox | det |
| 4 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dashed | nsubj |
| 5 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 dashed | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seizing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seizing | cc |
| 9 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 dashed | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kid | det |
| 11 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seizing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 seizing | parataxis |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 made | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 fast | advmod |
| 18 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 made | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | aux |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fast | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 looked | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 looked | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Lion | det |
| 26 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 looked | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Bear | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Bear | det |
| 29 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Lion | conj |
| 30 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 looked | compound:prt |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 rage | case |
| 33 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 rage | amod |
| 34 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 looked | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash up | participle | a Fox | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | gerund | a Fox not said here | the kid | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make off | participle | with kid; fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | go | could | Fox | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look on | past | the Lion and the Bear | in helpless rage | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in rage=Theme |
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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