The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Ass, sentence 6
The Ass came proudly out of the cave.
Who acts: Ass · What happens: come · To what, where: cave
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), 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 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Ass | the cave | proudly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out cave=Initial_Location |
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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