Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 5
THE LION, the Fox and the Ass entered into an agreement to assist each other in the chase.
Who acts: LION · What happens: enter, assist · To what, where: agreement, each, 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 (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 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 LION | det |
| 2 | LION | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fox | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fox | det |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 LION | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Ass | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ass | det |
| 8 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Fox | conj |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 agreement | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 agreement | det |
| 12 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 assist | mark |
| 14 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 entered | advcl |
| 15 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 14 assist | obj |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 each | fixed |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 chase | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chase | det |
| 19 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assist | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the LION and the Fox and the Ass | a agreement | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into agreement=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | assist | to-infinitive | the LION and the Fox and the Ass not said here | each | the chase | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary |
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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