Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 109
Not long afterwards, as he ascended a small hillock, he saw at its foot a Lion feeding on the Calf.
Who acts: calf · What happens: ascend, see · To what, where: small hillock, Lion feeding, foot
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (calf), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 afterwards | advmod |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 13 saw | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 afterwards | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 ascended | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ascended | nsubj |
| 7 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hillock | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hillock | amod |
| 10 | hillock | hillock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ascended | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ascended | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 foot | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 foot | nmod:poss |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 feeding | det |
| 18 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 feeding | compound |
| 19 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Calf | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Calf | det |
| 22 | Calf | Calf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 feeding | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascend | past | calf | a small hillock | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hillock=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see | past | calf | a Lion feeding | hillock's foot | on the Calf; afterwards property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeding=Stimulus |
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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