Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 142

They soon began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess.

Who acts: Lion · What happens: begin, boast · To what, where: each, strength

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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 began	advmod
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 boast	mark
5	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 superiority	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 superiority	nmod:poss
8	respective	respective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 superiority	amod
9	superiority	superiority	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boast	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 each	case
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 boast	obl
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 strength	case
14	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boast	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 prowess	cc
16	prowess	prowess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 strength	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Lion					soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	boast speech: other	to-infinitive	Lion not said here		each	strength and prowess		of Lion's respective superiority	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient

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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