Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 96

A LION, greatly desiring to capture a Bull, and yet afraid to attack him on account of his great size, resorted to a trick to ensure his destruction.

Who acts: LION · What happens: desire, capture, attack, resort, ensure, account · To what, where: Bull, account, destruction, great size

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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 LION	det
2	LION	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 desiring	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 LION	punct
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	5 desiring	advmod
5	desiring	desire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 capture	mark
7	capture	capture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 desiring	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Bull	det
9	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 capture	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 afraid	cc
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	13 afraid	advmod
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 desiring	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 attack	mark
15	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 afraid	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 attack	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 account	case
18	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 attack	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 size	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 size	nmod:poss
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 size	amod
22	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 account	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 resorted	punct
24	resorted	resort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 desiring	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 trick	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 trick	det
27	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 resorted	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 ensure	mark
29	ensure	ensure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 resorted	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 destruction	nmod:poss
31	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ensure	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 desiring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	desire	gerund	a LION			greatly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	capture not said to happen	to-infinitive	a LION not said here	a Bull			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Theme
3	attack	to-infinitive	a LION not said here	Bull	account of Lion's great size		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	resort	participle	a LION not said here			to a trick result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to trick=Result
5	ensure	to-infinitive	a LION not said here	Lion's destruction			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition destruction=Theme
6	account			Lion's great size			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	destroy		Lion				nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=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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