The Aesop for Children, The Stag and His Reflection, sentence 5
But as he ran his wide-spreading antlers caught in the branches of the trees, and soon the Panther overtook him.
Who acts: Stag, Panther · What happens: run, spread, catch, overtake · To what, where: spreading antlers, branches, Stag
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, Panther), 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 | _ | 4 ran | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 ran | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 antlers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spreading | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 wide | punct |
| 8 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 antlers | amod |
| 9 | antlers | antler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ran | obj |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 antlers | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 branches | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 branches | det |
| 13 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 caught | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trees | det |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 branches | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 overtook | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 overtook | cc |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 overtook | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Panther | det |
| 21 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 overtook | nsubj |
| 22 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 overtook | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Stag | Stag's spreading antlers | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme antler=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | spread | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | catch | participle | Stag's spreading antlers not said here | the branches of the trees | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | overtake | past | the Panther | Stag | soon property | tree rules |
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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