The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Ass, sentence 1
A Lion and an Ass agreed to go hunting together.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: agree, go, hunt
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion), 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 | 2 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Ass | cc |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Ass | det |
| 5 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lion | conj |
| 6 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 agreed | xcomp |
| 9 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 go | xcomp |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 hunting | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | a Lion and a Ass | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | a Lion and a Ass not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | a Lion and a Ass not said here | together property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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