Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 121
The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutched the Fox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: see, secure, clutch, attack · To what, where: Ass, Fox, leisure
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 (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 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 clutched | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Lion | acl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 secured | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Ass | det |
| 7 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 secured | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 secured | aux:pass |
| 9 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seeing | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 clutched | punct |
| 11 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 12 clutched | advmod |
| 12 | clutched | clutch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fox | det |
| 14 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clutched | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 attacked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 attacked | cc |
| 17 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 clutched | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Ass | det |
| 19 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 attacked | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 leisure | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 leisure | nmod:poss |
| 22 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 attacked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 clutched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the Lion not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | secure | past · passive | the Ass | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | clutch | past | the Lion | the Fox | immediately property | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme | |||
| 4 | attack | past | the Lion not said here | the Ass | Fox's leisure | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=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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