The Aesop for Children, Three Bullocks and a Lion, sentence 2
He had tried to attack them several times, but they had kept together, and helped each other to drive him off.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: try, attack, keep together, help, drive off · To what, where: Bullocks, each, Lion
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Three Bullocks and a Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | aux |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 attack | mark |
| 5 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 attack | obj |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 times | amod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 attack | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kept | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 kept | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kept | aux |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tried | conj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 kept | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 helped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 helped | cc |
| 17 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | parataxis |
| 18 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 17 helped | obj |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 each | fixed |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 drive | mark |
| 21 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 helped | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drive | obj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 drive | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · perfect | Lion | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | attack not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lion not said here | Bullocks = bullock | time | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | keep together | past · perfect · passive | Bullocks = bullock | together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | past | each | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary | |||||
| 5 | drive off | to-infinitive | Lion | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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