Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 85

The Lion alone challenged him to combat.

Who acts: Lion · What happens: challenge, combat · 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 (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	4 challenged	nsubj
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 challenged	advmod
4	challenged	challenge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 challenged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 combat	mark
7	combat	combat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 challenged	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 challenged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	challenge	past	the Lion	death				alone property	tree rules
2	combat	to-infinitive	the Lion not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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