The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Ass, sentence 5

The Ass made such a frightful din in the cave, kicking and braying with all his might, that the Goats came running out in a panic of fear, only to fall victim to the Lion.

Who acts: Ass, Goats · What happens: make, kick, bray, come, run out, fall · To what, where: frightful din, cave, panic, victim, fear

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, Goats), 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	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 din	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 din	det
6	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 din	amod
7	din	din	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 cave	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cave	det
10	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 din	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kicking	punct
12	kicking	kick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 made	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 braying	cc
14	braying	bray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 kicking	conj
15	with	with	SCONJ	_	18 might	mark
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 might	det:predet
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 might	nmod:poss
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 braying	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Goats	det
22	Goats	Goat	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
24	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 came	advcl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 running	compound:prt
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 panic	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 panic	det
28	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 running	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 fear	case
30	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 panic	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fall	punct
32	only	only	ADV	_	34 fall	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 fall	mark
34	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 came	conj
35	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fall	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 Lion	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Lion	det
38	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 fall	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Ass	such frightful din	the cave		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset din=Product
2	kick	gerund	the Ass not said here				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	bray	gerund	the Ass not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	the Goats				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run out	gerund	the Goats not said here		a panic of fear		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in panic=Trajectory
6	fall	to-infinitive	the Goats not said here	victim		to the Lion result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient victim=Extent to lion=Result
7	panic			fear			nom panic «feeling transitive»: of=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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