The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lion, sentence 2
But his plans were very much changed when he met a Lion, who, without making any excuses, took the Lamb away from him.
Who acts: plans, Wolf, Lion · What happens: be, meet, make, take away, plan · To what, where: Lion, excuses, Lamb
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf 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 (plans, Wolf, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 changed | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 plans | nmod:poss |
| 3 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 changed | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 changed | advmod |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 met | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 met | nsubj |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 changed | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Lion | det |
| 12 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 making | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 17 making | mark |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 Lion | conj |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 excuses | det |
| 19 | excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 making | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 changed | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Lamb | det |
| 23 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 took | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Wolf's plans | change property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | Wolf | a Lion | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | a Lion | any excuses | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Product | ||||
| 4 | take away | past | Wolf's plans not said here | the Lamb | from Wolf; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme from he=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | plan | Wolf | nom plan «cognition 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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