Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 95

While he was thus contemplating himself, a Lion appeared at the pool and crouched to spring upon him.

Who acts: Stag, Lion · What happens: contemplate, appear, crouch · To what, where: Stag, pool

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 (Stag, 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 contemplating	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 contemplating	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 contemplating	aux
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 contemplating	advmod
5	contemplating	contemplate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 appeared	advcl
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 contemplating	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 contemplating	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Lion	det
9	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 appeared	nsubj
10	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 pool	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pool	det
13	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 appeared	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 crouched	cc
15	crouched	crouch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 pool	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 spring	case
17	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crouched	obl
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 spring	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contemplate	past · progressive	Stag	Stag			thus property	tree rules
2	appear	past	a Lion		the pool			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pool=Location
3	crouch	participle	a Lion not said here			spring		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=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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