Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 69

While trying to crush him, the Lion tore himself with his claws, until he punished himself severely.

Who acts: Lion · What happens: try, crush, tore, punish · To what, where: Lion

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 (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	While	while	SCONJ	_	2 trying	mark
2	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tore	advcl
3	to	to	PART	_	4 crush	mark
4	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trying	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crush	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 trying	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lion	det
8	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tore	nsubj
9	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 tore	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 claws	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 claws	nmod:poss
13	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tore	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 punished	punct
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 punished	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 punished	nsubj
17	punished	punish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tore	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 punished	obj
19	severely	severely	ADV	_	17 punished	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	gerund	the Lion not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	crush not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Lion not said here	Lion		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	tore	past	the Lion	Lion	with Lion's claws	tree rules
4	punish	past	Lion	Lion	severely property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient

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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