Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 129
A Lion lay in ambush in the hope of making them his prey, but was afraid to attack them while they kept together.
Who acts: Lion, hope, unawares · What happens: lie, make, be, attack, keep together · To what, where: ambush, unawares
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, hope, unawares), 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 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 ambush | case |
| 5 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hope | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hope | det |
| 8 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 making | mark |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hope | acl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 making | obj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 prey | nmod:poss |
| 13 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 making | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 afraid | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 afraid | cop |
| 17 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lay | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 attack | mark |
| 19 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 afraid | xcomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 attack | obj |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 kept | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kept | nsubj |
| 23 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 attack | advcl |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 kept | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | a Lion | ambush | in the hope | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ambush=Location | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | the hope not said here | unawares = unaware | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary prey=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a Lion not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | attack | to-infinitive | a Lion not said here | unawares = unaware | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | keep together | past | unawares = unaware | together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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