The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Lion, sentence 3
The second time the Fox saw the Lion he stopped behind a tree to look at him a moment before slinking away.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: see, stop, look, slink away · To what, where: Lion, tree
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stopped | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fox | det |
| 5 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lion | det |
| 8 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stopped | nsubj |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stopped | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stopped | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 look | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 moment | det |
| 19 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 slinking | mark |
| 21 | slinking | slink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 look | advcl |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 slinking | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Fox | the Lion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | Fox | a tree | time | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Fox not said here | moment | at Fox | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | |||
| 4 | slink away | gerund | Fox not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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