Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 81
The Lioness came up, and bitterly lamented the death of her whelp.
Who acts: Lioness, whelp · What happens: come up, lament, die · To what, where: death
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 (Lioness, whelp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg21:827): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lioness | det |
| 2 | Lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 came | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lamented | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lamented | cc |
| 7 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 8 lamented | advmod |
| 8 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 death | det |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lamented | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 whelp | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 whelp | nmod:poss |
| 13 | whelp | whelp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 death | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the Lioness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lament | past | the Lioness not said here | the death of Lioness's whelp | bitterly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | die | Lioness's whelp | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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