The Aesop for Children, Three Bullocks and a Lion, sentence 6
It was now an easy matter for the Lion to attack them one at a time, and this he proceeded to do with the greatest satisfaction and relish.
Who acts: It, Lion, this · What happens: be, attack, proceed, do · To what, where: easy matter, Bullocks
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 (It, Lion, this), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 matter | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 matter | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 matter | det |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 matter | amod |
| 6 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 attack | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lion | det |
| 9 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 attack | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 attack | mark |
| 11 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 matter | acl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 attack | obj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 attack | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attack | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 proceeded | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 proceeded | cc |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 proceeded | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 proceeded | nsubj |
| 21 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 matter | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 proceeded | xcomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 satisfaction | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 satisfaction | det |
| 26 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 satisfaction | amod |
| 27 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 relish | cc |
| 29 | relish | relish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 satisfaction | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a easy matter | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | attack | to-infinitive | the Lion | Bullocks = bullock | time | tree rules | |||
| 3 | proceed | past | this | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | this not said here | with the greatest satisfaction and relish | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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