Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 74
The Hare, lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep.
Who acts: Hare · What happens: lie down, fall
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 (Hare), 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 Hare | det |
| 2 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hare | punct |
| 4 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Hare | acl |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lying | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 wayside | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wayside | det |
| 8 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lying | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hare | punct |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 fell | advmod |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fell | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | gerund | the Hare not said here | by the wayside; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wayside=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the Hare | asleep, fast property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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