Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 98

The Lion said this in the hope that, as the Bull was in the act of reclining to eat, he might attack him to advantage, and make his meal on him.

Who acts: Lion, Bull, act · What happens: say, be, recline, eat, attack, advantage · To what, where: this, hope, Bull, meal · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Bull, act), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Lion	det
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 said	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hope	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hope	det
7	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 act	punct
10	as	as	ADP	_	16 act	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Bull	det
12	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 act	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 act	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 act	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 act	det
16	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	parataxis
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 reclining	mark
18	reclining	recline	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 act	acl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 reclining	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 attack	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 attack	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 attack	aux
24	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 attack	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 advantage	mark
27	advantage	advantage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 attack	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 make	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 make	cc
30	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 attack	parataxis
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 meal	nmod:poss
32	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 make	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 make	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Lion	this	the hope		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme that=Manner
2	is	past	the Bull			as the act	tree rules
3	recline	gerund	the act not said here				tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	the act not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	attack	might	Lion	Bull			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	advantage	to-infinitive	Lion not said here				tree rules
7	make	infinitive		Lion's meal		on Lion	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meal=Product

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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