Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 70
The Gnat thus prevailed over the Lion, and, buzzing about in a song of triumph, flew away.
Who acts: Gnat, triumph · What happens: prevail, buzz, fly away, sing
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 (Gnat, triumph), 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 Gnat | det |
| 2 | Gnat | Gnat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 prevailed | nsubj |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 prevailed | advmod |
| 4 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 Lion | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lion | det |
| 7 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 prevailed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 buzzing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 buzzing | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 buzzing | punct |
| 11 | buzzing | buzz | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 prevailed | advcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 song | case |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 song | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 song | det |
| 15 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buzzing | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 triumph | case |
| 17 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 song | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flew | punct |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prevailed | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 flew | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prevailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevail | past | the Gnat | over the Lion; thus property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lion=Location | ||||
| 2 | buzz | gerund | the Gnat not said here | about a song of triumph | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about song=Location | ||||
| 3 | fly away | past | the Gnat not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing | triumph | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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