Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 130
A WOLF pursued a Lamb, which fled for refuge to a certain Temple.
Who acts: WOLF, Lamb · What happens: pursue, flee · To what, where: Lamb, certain Temple
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 (WOLF, Lamb), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 WOLF | det |
| 2 | WOLF | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pursued | nsubj |
| 3 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Lamb | det |
| 5 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pursued | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fled | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 fled | nsubj |
| 8 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Lamb | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 refuge | case |
| 10 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fled | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Temple | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Temple | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Temple | amod |
| 14 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | a WOLF | a Lamb | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | a Lamb | a certain Temple | for refuge | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to temple=Initial_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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