Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 122
A HOUND having started a Hare on the hillside pursued her for some distance, at one time biting her with his teeth as if he would take her life, and at another fawning upon her, as if in play with another dog.
Who acts: HOUND, hillside, one time · What happens: have, start, pursue, bite, take · To what, where: Hare, desire, life
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HOUND, hillside, one time), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 HOUND | det |
| 2 | HOUND | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | nsubj |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 HOUND | acl |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Hare | det |
| 6 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 started | obj |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 10 pursued | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hillside | det |
| 9 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pursued | nsubj |
| 10 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | advcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pursued | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 distance | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 distance | det |
| 14 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pursued | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 time | nummod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pursued | obl |
| 19 | biting | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 time | acl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 biting | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 teeth | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 biting | obl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 take | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 take | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 take | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 take | aux |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 biting | advcl |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 life | nmod:poss |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fawning | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fawning | cc |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 fawning | case |
| 34 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 fawning | det |
| 35 | fawning | fawning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | parataxis |
| 36 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 fawning | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 play | punct |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 play | case |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 42 play | mark |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 play | case |
| 42 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fawning | conj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 dog | case |
| 44 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 dog | det |
| 45 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 play | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | a HOUND not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | start | past | a HOUND | a Hare | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | pursue | past | the hillside | desire | time | for some distance | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||
| 4 | bite | gerund | one time not said here | desire | with hillside's teeth | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with tooth=Instrument | |||
| 5 | take | would | Hound | desire's life | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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