The Aesop for Children, The Sick Stag, sentence 2

He had just strength enough to gather some food and find a quiet clearing in the woods, where he lay down to wait until his strength should return.

Who acts: Stag, strength · What happens: have, gather, find, lie down, wait, return · To what, where: strength, food, quiet clearing, woods

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Sick Stag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stag, strength), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:665): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 strength	advmod
4	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 strength	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 gather	mark
7	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 strength	acl
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 food	det
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gather	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gather	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 clearing	det
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 clearing	amod
14	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 woods	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woods	det
17	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 clearing	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 lay	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 clearing	acl:relcl
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 lay	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 wait	mark
24	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 lay	advcl
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	29 return	mark
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 strength	nmod:poss
27	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 return	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 return	aux
29	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wait	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Stag	strength			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
2	gather	to-infinitive	Stag not said here	some food			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	find	infinitive	Stag not said here	a quiet clearing	the woods		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clearing=Topic
4	lie down	past	Stag			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wait	to-infinitive	Stag not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	return	should	Stag's strength				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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