Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 23
On seeing him the third time, he so increased in boldness that he went up to him and commenced a familiar conversation with him.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: see, increase, go up, commence · To what, where: Lion, boldness, king, familiar conversation
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), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 seeing | mark |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 increased | advcl |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seeing | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seeing | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seeing | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 increased | nsubj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 increased | advmod |
| 10 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 boldness | case |
| 12 | boldness | boldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 increased | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 increased | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 went | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 commenced | cc |
| 20 | commenced | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 conversation | det |
| 22 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 conversation | amod |
| 23 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 commenced | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 conversation | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Lion not said here | Lion | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | increase | past | Lion | boldness | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go up | past | Lion | king | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | commence | past | Lion not said here | a familiar conversation | with Lion | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent conversation=Eventuality with he=Subeventuality |
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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