Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 48
SOME DOGS, finding the skin of a lion, began to tear it in pieces with their teeth.
Who acts: SOME DOGS · What happens: find, begin, tear · To what, where: skin, pieces
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 (SOME DOGS), 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 | SOME | some | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 DOGS | amod |
| 2 | DOGS | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 began | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finding | punct |
| 4 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 DOGS | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skin | det |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finding | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lion | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lion | det |
| 9 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skin | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 DOGS | punct |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 tear | mark |
| 13 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tear | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pieces | case |
| 16 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tear | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 teeth | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 19 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pieces | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | SOME DOGS not said here | the skin of a lion | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Topic | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | SOME DOGS | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | tear | to-infinitive | SOME DOGS not said here | skin | pieces with Dogs's teeth | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=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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