The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Ass, sentence 3
The Ass was to go into the cave and drive the Goats out, while the Lion would stand at the entrance to strike them down.
Who acts: Ass, Lion · What happens: be, drive out, stand, strike down · To what, where: cave, Goats, entrance, 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 (Ass, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ass | det |
| 2 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drive | cc |
| 10 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Goats | det |
| 12 | Goats | Goat | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 drive | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 drive | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stand | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 stand | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lion | det |
| 17 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 stand | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stand | aux |
| 19 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | parataxis |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 entrance | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 entrance | det |
| 22 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stand | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 strike | mark |
| 24 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stand | advcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 strike | obj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 strike | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Ass | the cave | go property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | drive out | infinitive | the Ass not said here | the Goats | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | would | the Lion | the entrance | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at entrance=Location | ||||
| 4 | strike down | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | Lion | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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