The Aesop for Children, The Dogs and the Fox, sentence 1
Some Dogs found the skin of a Lion and furiously began to tear it with their teeth.
Who acts: Dogs · What happens: find, begin, tear · To what, where: skin
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dogs), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 Dogs | det |
| 2 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skin | det |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Lion | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Lion | det |
| 8 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 skin | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 10 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 11 began | advmod |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 tear | mark |
| 13 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tear | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 teeth | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tear | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | some Dogs | the skin of a Lion | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Topic | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | some Dogs not said here | furiously property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tear | to-infinitive | some Dogs not said here | skin | with Dogs's teeth | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with tooth=Instrument |
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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