Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 83
A FOX saw a Lion confined in a cage, and standing near him, bitterly reviled him.
Who acts: FOX, Lion · What happens: see, confine, stand, revile · To what, where: Lion, cage
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 (FOX, 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 FOX | det |
| 2 | FOX | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Lion | det |
| 5 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cage | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cage | det |
| 9 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 confined | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 standing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 standing | cc |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | advcl |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 standing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reviled | punct |
| 16 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 17 reviled | advmod |
| 17 | reviled | revile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reviled | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a FOX | a Lion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | confine | participle | a Lion not said here | a cage | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in cage=Destination | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a FOX not said here | near lion | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location | ||||
| 4 | revile | past | a FOX not said here | lion | bitterly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «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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