Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 21

WHEN A FOX who had never yet seen a Lion, fell in with him by chance for the first time in the forest, he was so frightened that he nearly died with fear.

Who acts: FOX, Lion · What happens: not see, fall in, be, die · To what, where: Lion

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 (FOX, 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	WHEN	when	SCONJ	_	8 seen	mark
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 FOX	det
3	FOX	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 seen	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 seen	advmod
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 seen	advmod
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 fell	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Lion	det
10	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fell	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Lion	punct
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 fell	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 chance	case
17	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chance	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 time	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 frightened	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 frightened	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 frightened	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 frightened	advmod
29	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fell	parataxis
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 died	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 died	nsubj
32	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	33 died	advmod
33	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 frightened	advcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 fear	case
35	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 died	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	a FOX		yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	fall in	past	a Lion			with king; by chance for the first time in the forest	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by chance=Location
3	is	past · passive		Lion		frightened property	tree rules
4	die	past	Lion			with fear; nearly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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