Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 118
They had not proceeded far when they met a Lion.
Who acts: Ass · What happens: not proceed, meet · To what, where: Ass, Lion
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 (Ass), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 proceeded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proceeded | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 proceeded | advmod |
| 4 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 proceeded | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 met | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 met | nsubj |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proceeded | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 10 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not proceed | past · perfect · passive | Ass | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | Ass | a Lion | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Co-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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