Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 119

The Fox, seeing imminent danger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him the capture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harm the Fox.

Who acts: Fox, Lion · What happens: see, approach, promise, contrive, pledge, not harm · To what, where: imminent danger, Lion, capture, word, Fox, Ass

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 (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	8 approached	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seeing	punct
4	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Fox	acl
5	imminent	imminent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 danger	amod
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fox	punct
8	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Lion	det
10	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 approached	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 promised	cc
12	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 approached	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 contrive	mark
14	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 promised	xcomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 contrive	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 capture	det
18	capture	capture	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 contrive	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Ass	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Ass	det
21	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 capture	nmod
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 pledge	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Lion	det
24	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 pledge	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 pledge	aux
26	pledge	pledge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 contrive	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 word	nmod:poss
28	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pledge	obj
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 harm	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 harm	mark
31	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 pledge	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Fox	det
33	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 harm	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the Fox not said here	imminent danger		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus
2	approach	past	the Fox	the Lion		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme
3	promise speech: promise	past	the Fox not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	contrive not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Fox not said here	the capture of the Ass	for Fox	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent capture=Result for he=Beneficiary
5	pledge a condition, not said to happen	would	the Lion	Fox's word		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent word=Theme
6	not harm	to-infinitive	the Lion not said here	the Fox		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fox=Experiencer
7	capture			the Ass		nom capture «act transitive»: of=patient
8	word		Fox			nom word «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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