Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 33
The Fox discovered and pointed out the prey; the Lion sprang on it and seized it.
Who acts: Fox, Lion · What happens: discover, point out, spring, seize · To what, where: prey
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 (Fox, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | nsubj |
| 3 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pointed | cc |
| 5 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 discovered | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 pointed | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prey | det |
| 8 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pointed | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprang | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lion | det |
| 11 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sprang | nsubj |
| 12 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 discovered | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sprang | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seized | cc |
| 16 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sprang | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seized | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | the Fox | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | point out | past | the Fox not said here | the prey | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient | ||||
| 3 | spring | past | the Lion | prey | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | seize | past | the Lion not said here | prey | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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