Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 89

A LION, growing old, lay sick in his cave.

Who acts: LION · What happens: grow, lay · To what, where: cave

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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 LION	det
2	LION	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 growing	punct
4	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 LION	conj
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 growing	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 LION	punct
7	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lay	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cave	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cave	nmod:poss
11	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund	a LION not said here					old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	infinitive	a LION			lion's cave		sick property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in cave=Destination

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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