Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 7
A LION, roaming through a forest, trod upon a thorn.
Who acts: LION · What happens: roam, tread · To what, where: forest, thorn
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 LION | det |
| 2 | LION | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trod | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 roaming | punct |
| 4 | roaming | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 LION | acl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roaming | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 LION | punct |
| 9 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 thorn | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thorn | det |
| 12 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trod | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 trod | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roam | gerund | a LION not said here | a forest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | tread | past | a LION | a thorn | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon thorn=Trajectory |
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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