The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Ass, sentence 2
In their search for game the hunters saw a number of Wild Goats run into a cave, and laid plans to catch them.
Who acts: hunters, Wild Goats, laid plans, Lion · What happens: see, run, catch, search · To what, where: number, search, cave, Lion
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 (hunters, Wild Goats, laid plans, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 search | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 search | nmod:poss |
| 3 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 game | case |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 search | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hunters | det |
| 7 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Goats | case |
| 12 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Goats | amod |
| 13 | Goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 run | nsubj |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 number | acl:relcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 cave | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cave | det |
| 17 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 run | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 catch | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 catch | cc |
| 20 | laid | laid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plans | amod |
| 21 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 catch | nsubj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 catch | mark |
| 23 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saw | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 catch | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the hunters | a number | Lion's search for game | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run | present | Wild Goats | a number not said here | a cave | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent number=Theme into cave=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | laid plans | Lion | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | search | Lion | for game | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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