The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Leopard, sentence 5
The Leopard was about to lose his temper when the Fox got up, yawning lazily.
Who acts: Leopard, Fox · What happens: be, lose, get up, yawn, temper · To what, where: temper
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Leopard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leopard, Fox), 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 Leopard | det |
| 2 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 about | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 about | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lose | mark |
| 6 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 about | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 temper | nmod:poss |
| 8 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lose | obj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 got | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fox | det |
| 11 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lose | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 got | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 yawning | punct |
| 15 | yawning | yawn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 got | advcl |
| 16 | lazily | lazily | ADV | _ | 15 yawning | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Leopard | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | to-infinitive | the Leopard not said here | Leopard's temper | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get up | past | the Fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | yawn | gerund | the Fox not said here | lazily property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | temper | Leopard | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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