Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 82
AN ASS feeding in a meadow saw a Wolf approaching to seize him, and immediately pretended to be lame.
Who acts: AN ASS feeding, Wolf · What happens: see, approach, seize, pretend, be · To what, where: Wolf, feeding
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 (AN ASS feeding, Wolf), 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 | AN | an | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feeding | amod |
| 2 | ASS | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feeding | compound |
| 3 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 meadow | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 meadow | det |
| 6 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feeding | nmod |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Wolf | det |
| 9 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 saw | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 seize | mark |
| 12 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 approaching | xcomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seize | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pretended | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pretended | cc |
| 16 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 17 pretended | advmod |
| 17 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 saw | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 lame | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 lame | cop |
| 20 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pretended | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | AN ASS feeding in a meadow | a Wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | approach | gerund | a Wolf not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seize | to-infinitive | a Wolf not said here | feeding | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pretend | participle | AN ASS feeding in a meadow not said here | immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | AN ASS feeding in a meadow not said here | lame property | tree rules |
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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