Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 2
A LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: awaken, run · To what, where: LION, sleep, face
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 (Mouse), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 LION | det |
| 2 | LION | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awakened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awakened | aux:pass |
| 4 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 sleep | case |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awakened | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Mouse | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Mouse | det |
| 9 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awakened | obl |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 Mouse | acl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | a Mouse | a LION | sleep | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | a Mouse not said here | Mouse's face | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over face=Trajectory |
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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