Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 91
After a time, perceiving the meekness and gentleness of the beast’s temper, he summoned courage enough to approach him.
Who acts: time, MAN, beast · What happens: perceive, summon, approach, temper · To what, where: meekness, courage, MAN
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 (time, MAN, beast), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 summoned | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 perceiving | punct |
| 5 | perceiving | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 time | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 meekness | det |
| 7 | meekness | meekness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perceiving | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gentleness | cc |
| 9 | gentleness | gentleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meekness | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 temper | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beast | det |
| 12 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 temper | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 beast | case |
| 14 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gentleness | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 summoned | nsubj |
| 17 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 summoned | obj |
| 19 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 17 summoned | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 approach | mark |
| 21 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 summoned | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 approach | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | gerund | a time not said here | the meekness and gentleness of the beast's temper | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer meekness=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | summon | past | MAN | courage | time | enough property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Recipient | ||
| 3 | approach | to-infinitive | MAN not said here | MAN | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | temper | the beast | nom temper «feeling transitive»: 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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