The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Lion, sentence 1
A very young Fox, who had never before seen a Lion, happened to meet one in the forest.
Who acts: young Fox · What happens: see, happen, meet · To what, where: Lion, one, forest
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox 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 (young Fox), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Fox | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 young | advmod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Fox | amod |
| 4 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 before | advmod |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 seen | advmod |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 Fox | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Lion | det |
| 12 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Fox | punct |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 meet | mark |
| 16 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 happened | xcomp |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 meet | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | a young Fox | a Lion | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | happen | past | a young Fox | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | a young Fox not said here | one | the forest | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-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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