Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 29

AN ASS, having put on the Lion’s skin, roamed about in the forest and amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met in his wanderings.

Who acts: Lion · What happens: put, roam, amuse, meet, wander · To what, where: AN ASS, skin, Lion, foolish animals, wanderings

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. 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	AN	an	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ASS	amod
2	ASS	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ASS	punct
4	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 put	aux
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 skin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lion	det
8	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 skin	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Lion	case
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 roamed	punct
12	roamed	roam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 put	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	16 forest	case
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 roamed	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 amused	cc
18	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 amused	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 frightening	case
21	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 amused	obl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 animals	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 animals	det
24	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 animals	amod
25	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 amused	advcl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 met	nsubj
27	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 animals	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 wanderings	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wanderings	nmod:poss
30	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 met	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	gerund · perfect · passive		AN ASS	the Lion's skin		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on skin=Destination
2	roam	participle				about the forest	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about forest=Trajectory
3	amuse	past		Lion		by frightening	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
4	meet	past	Lion	all foolish animals not said here	Lion's wanderings		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Co-Agent
5	wander		Lion				nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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