Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 5

It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by strong ropes to the ground.

Who acts: It, hunters · What happens: happen, catch, bound · To what, where: Lion, Mouse

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 (It, hunters), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	2 happened	advmod
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 happened	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 caught	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lion	det
8	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 caught	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 caught	aux:pass
10	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 happened	advcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 hunters	case
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 hunters	det
13	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 caught	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bound	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 bound	nsubj
16	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hunters	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bound	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 ropes	case
19	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ropes	amod
20	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bound	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bound	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It		after this	shortly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past · passive	some hunters	the Lion			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	bound	present	some hunters	Mouse		by strong ropes; to the ground	tree rules

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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