Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 35
A HOUND started a Hare from his lair, but after a long run, gave up the chase.
Who acts: HOUND · What happens: start, give up · To what, where: Hare, lair, chase
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), 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 | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Hare | det |
| 5 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 started | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 lair | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lair | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 started | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 run | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 run | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 run | amod |
| 14 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 gave | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chase | det |
| 19 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | a HOUND | a Hare | Hound's lair | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | give up | past | a HOUND not said here | the chase | after a long run | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Source |
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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