Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 97

But entering a wood he became entangled by his horns, and the Lion quickly came up to him and caught him.

Who acts: Stag, Lion · What happens: enter, become, entangle, come up, catch · To what, where: wood, 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, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 entering	cc
2	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wood	det
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entering	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wood	acl:relcl
7	entangled	entangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 became	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 horns	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 horns	nmod:poss
10	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 entangled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Lion	det
14	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entering	conj
17	up	up	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 caught	cc
21	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 caught	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	enter	gerund		a wood			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Destination
2	become	past	Stag	a wood not said here			tree rules
3	entangle	participle	Stag not said here			by Stag's horns	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	come up	past	the Lion		Stag	quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
5	catch	past	the Lion not said here	Stag			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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