Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 8
The Lion, bursting out into a great rage, devoured the Ass.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: burst out, devour · To what, where: great rage, Ass
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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 devoured | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bursting | punct |
| 4 | bursting | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Lion | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 bursting | compound:prt |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 rage | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rage | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rage | amod |
| 9 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bursting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lion | punct |
| 11 | devoured | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Ass | det |
| 13 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 devoured | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 devoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst out | gerund | the Lion not said here | a great rage | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | devour | past | the Lion | the Ass | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Patient |
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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