The Aesop for Children, Three Bullocks and a Lion, sentence 4
But he could not keep away from that field, for it is hard to resist watching a good meal, even when there is little chance of getting it.
Who acts: Lion, little chance · What happens: not keep away, be, resist, watch, get · To what, where: field, good meal, little chance, meal
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, little chance), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 keep | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 keep | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 keep | advmod |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 keep | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 field | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 field | det |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hard | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 hard | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hard | expl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hard | cop |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keep | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 resist | mark |
| 16 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hard | xcomp |
| 17 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 resist | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 meal | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 meal | amod |
| 20 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 watching | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 chance | punct |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 chance | advmod |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 is | advmod |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 is | expl |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 chance | cop |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 chance | amod |
| 27 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obl |
| 28 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 getting | mark |
| 29 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 chance | acl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 getting | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep away | could | Lion | that field | away property | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from field=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | present | Lion not said here | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | resist | to-infinitive | Lion not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | Lion not said here | a good meal | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | little chance | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | get | gerund | little chance not said here | meal | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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