Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 58
A HART, hard pressed in the chase, hid himself beneath the large leaves of a Vine.
Who acts: HART · What happens: press, hide · To what, where: HART, chase, bird, large leaves
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HART), 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 | 2 HART | det |
| 2 | HART | hart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hard | punct |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 HART | amod |
| 5 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 HART | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 chase | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chase | det |
| 8 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pressed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 HART | punct |
| 10 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 hid | obj |
| 12 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 leaves | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 leaves | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 leaves | amod |
| 15 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hid | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Vine | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Vine | det |
| 18 | Vine | Vine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 leaves | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | participle | a HART not said here | the chase | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | a HART | bird | the large leaves of a Vine | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient beneath leaf=Location |
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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