Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 93

The Lion roaring out in a rage against him, the Fox sought an opportunity to defend himself and said, “And who of all those who have come to you have benefited you so much as I, who have traveled from place to place in every direction, and have sought and learnt from the physicians the means of healing you?”

Who acts: Lion · What happens: roar out, seek, defend, say, come, benefit · To what, where: rage, opportunity, lion, you, those, place · Speech: someone speaks here

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Lion	det
2	Lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sought	nsubj
3	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Lion	acl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 roaring	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 rage	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rage	det
7	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roaring	obl
8	against	against	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rage	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Fox	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Fox	det
12	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Lion	conj
13	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 opportunity	det
15	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sought	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 defend	mark
17	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 opportunity	acl
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 defend	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sought	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 benefited	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 benefited	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	27 those	cc
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 those	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 those	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 those	det:predet
27	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 benefited	nsubj:pass
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 come	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 those	acl:relcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 come	obl
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 benefited	aux
34	benefited	benefit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 said	ccomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 benefited	obj
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 much	advmod
37	much	much	ADV	_	34 benefited	advmod
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 I	case
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 much	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 traveled	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 traveled	nsubj
42	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 traveled	aux
43	traveled	travel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 benefited	conj
44	from	from	ADP	_	45 place	case
45	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 traveled	obl
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 place	case
47	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 traveled	obl
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 direction	case
49	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	50 direction	det
50	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 place	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 sought	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 sought	cc
53	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 sought	aux
54	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 means	nsubj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 learnt	cc
56	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	54 sought	conj
57	from	from	ADP	_	59 physicians	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 physicians	det
59	physicians	physician	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 learnt	obl
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 means	nsubj
61	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sought	parataxis
62	of	of	SCONJ	_	63 healing	mark
63	healing	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	61 means	ccomp
64	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	63 healing	obj
65	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 sought	punct
66	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	roar out	gerund	the Lion and the Fox not said here			a rage against lion		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rage=Location
2	seek	past	the Lion and the Fox	a opportunity				tree rules
3	defend	to-infinitive	the Lion and the Fox not said here	lion				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
4	say speech: ask	past	the Lion and the Fox not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come in a quote	present · perfect			you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
6	benefit in a quote	present · perfect · passive		those				tree rules
7	travel in a quote	present · perfect				place	to place in every direction	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination
8	seek in a quote	present · perfect						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	learn in a quote	participle				the physicians		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from physician=Source
10	mean in a quote	present						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	heal in a quote	gerund		you				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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