Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 34

The Fox soon became jealous of the Lion carrying off the Lion’s share, and said that he would no longer find out the prey, but would capture it on his own account.

Who acts: Fox, Lion · What happens: become, carry off, say, find out, capture, share · To what, where: share, prey, own account · 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 (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	4 became	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 became	advmod
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 became	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Lion	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lion	det
8	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 jealous	obl
9	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 became	xcomp
10	off	off	ADP	_	14 share	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Lion	det
12	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 share	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Lion	case
14	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carrying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 find	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 find	aux
21	no	no	ADV	_	22 longer	advmod
22	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 find	advmod
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 find	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 prey	det
26	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 capture	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 capture	cc
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 capture	aux
30	capture	capture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 capture	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 account	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 account	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 account	amod
35	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 capture	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the Fox			jealous, soon property	tree rules
2	carry off	gerund	the Fox not said here	the Lion's share			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Fox not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	find out	would	Fox	the prey		long property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Topic
5	capture	would	the Fox not said here	prey	Fox's own account		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	share		the Lion				nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent
7	account		Fox				nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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