Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 119
While he was indulging in these proud thoughts, a Lion fell upon him and killed him.
Who acts: lion · What happens: indulge, fall, kill · To what, where: proud thoughts, lion
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 indulging | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 indulging | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 indulging | aux |
| 4 | indulging | indulge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 fell | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 thoughts | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 thoughts | det |
| 7 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thoughts | amod |
| 8 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 indulging | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indulging | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Lion | det |
| 11 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 killed | cc |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fell | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | indulge | past · progressive | lion | this proud thoughts | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | a Lion | upon shadow | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | a Lion not said here | lion | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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