Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 96

The Stag immediately took to flight, and exerting his utmost speed, as long as the plain was smooth and open kept himself easily at a safe distance from the Lion.

Who acts: Stag, plain, exerting · What happens: take, exert, be, keep · To what, where: utmost speed, Stag

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, plain, exerting), 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 Stag	det
2	Stag	Stag	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 flight	case
6	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 exerting	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 exerting	cc
9	exerting	exert	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 kept	csubj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 speed	nmod:poss
11	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 speed	amod
12	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exerting	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 smooth	punct
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 long	advmod
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 smooth	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 smooth	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 plain	det
18	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smooth	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 smooth	cop
20	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 exerting	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 open	cc
22	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 smooth	conj
23	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	advcl
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 kept	obj
25	easily	easily	ADV	_	23 kept	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 distance	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 distance	det
28	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 distance	amod
29	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kept	obl
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 Lion	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Lion	det
32	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 distance	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Stag		to flight result; immediately property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to flight=Result
2	exert	gerund		Stag's utmost speed		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=Theme
3	is	past	the plain		long, smooth property	tree rules
4	be		the plain not said here			tree rules
5	keep	past	exerting	Stag	at a safe distance from the Lion; easily property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at distance=Location

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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