Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 109

On hearing this the Lion groaned and lamented very much and, reproaching himself with his cowardice, wished that he might die.

Who acts: Lion, courage · What happens: hear, groan, lament, reproach, wish, die · To what, where: this, courage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, courage), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 groaned	advcl
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 hearing	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lion	det
5	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 groaned	nsubj
6	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lamented	cc
8	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 groaned	conj
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	8 lamented	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 reproaching	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reproaching	punct
13	reproaching	reproach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 lamented	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 reproaching	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 cowardice	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 cowardice	nmod:poss
17	cowardice	cowardice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reproaching	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wished	punct
19	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 groaned	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 die	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 die	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 die	aux
23	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wished	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 groaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the Lion not said here	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	groan	past	the Lion			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lament	past	the Lion not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	reproach	gerund	the Lion not said here	courage	with courage's cowardice	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	wish	past	the Lion not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	die	might	courage			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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