Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 102
The Hunter ran after him, as if he was sure of overtaking him, but the Horseman increased more and more the distance between them.
Who acts: Hunter, hare, Horseman · What happens: run, be, overtake, increase · To what, where: hare
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, hare, Horseman), 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 Hunter | det |
| 2 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sure | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 sure | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 sure | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sure | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sure | cop |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 overtaking | mark |
| 13 | overtaking | overtake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sure | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 overtaking | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 increased | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 increased | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Horseman | det |
| 18 | Horseman | Horseman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 increased | nsubj |
| 19 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 increased | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 more | cc |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 more | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 distance | det |
| 24 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 more | obl |
| 25 | between | between | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 distance | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the Hunter | after hare | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | hare | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | overtake | gerund | hare not said here | hare | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | increase | past | the Horseman | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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