The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lion, sentence 5
The Lion looked back, but as the Wolf was too far away to be taught a lesson without too much inconvenience, he said:
Who acts: Lion, Wolf · What happens: look back, be, teach, say · To what, where: lesson · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lion, Wolf), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | ccomp |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 taught | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 taught | cc |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 away | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wolf | det |
| 9 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 away | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 away | cop |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 away | advmod |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 taught | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 taught | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 taught | aux:pass |
| 16 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lesson | det |
| 18 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taught | obj |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 inconvenience | case |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 inconvenience | amod |
| 22 | inconvenience | inconvenience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taught | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | past | the Lion | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the Wolf | away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive · passive | the Lion not said here | a lesson | without much inconvenience | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: lesson=Recipient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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