Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 84
A VERY SKILLFUL BOWMAN went to the mountains in search of game, but all the beasts of the forest fled at his approach.
Who acts: SKILLFUL BOWMAN, beasts, death · What happens: go, flee, search, approach · To what, where: search, approach, game
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 (SKILLFUL BOWMAN, beasts, death), 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 | 4 BOWMAN | det |
| 2 | VERY | very | ADV | _ | 3 SKILLFUL | advmod |
| 3 | SKILLFUL | skillful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 BOWMAN | amod |
| 4 | BOWMAN | bowman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 search | case |
| 10 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 game | case |
| 12 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 search | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fled | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 fled | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 beasts | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beasts | det |
| 17 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fled | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beasts | nmod |
| 21 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 approach | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 approach | nmod:poss |
| 24 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a SKILLFUL BOWMAN | search of game | to the mountains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | flee | past | all beasts of the forest | death's approach | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | search | game | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | approach | death | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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