The Aesop for Children, The Stag and His Reflection, sentence 4
At that moment he scented a panther and in an instant was bounding away through the forest.
Who acts: Stag · What happens: scent, bound away · To what, where: panther, instant
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag and His Reflection. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stag), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scented | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scented | nsubj |
| 5 | scented | scent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 panther | det |
| 7 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scented | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bounding | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 instant | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 instant | det |
| 11 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bounding | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bounding | aux |
| 13 | bounding | bound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 scented | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 bounding | advmod |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bounding | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scent | past | Stag | a panther | moment | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent panther=Destination | |||
| 2 | bound away | past · progressive | Stag not said here | a instant | through the forest; away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=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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